[nslookup only] Got recursion not available

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • In RHEL8 and later nslookup throws error "Got recursion not available"

  • If no other servers are reachable it will fail with "connection timed out"

  • dig command has no issue with this

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and above

  • bind-utils

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