CNAME within authoritative zone returns recursion not available

[toioiz]

Looking to use Gravity as a primary DNS Server for a bunch of airgap linux hosts, but having issues with CNAME resolution. Gravity is 100% authoritative for all records in the zone, but when pointing to gravity as a dns resolver, it fails CNAME lookups.

nslookup cname1.test.me

Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

cname.test.me canonical name = cname1.test.me

Returns dig returns with Recursion not available!

But the followup A record is within an authoritative zone, so I'm not sure why recursion is needed at all.

In coreDNS you can work around this with header module:
header {
response set ra # set RecursionAvailable flag
}

Is there a way to do this in gravity?

EDIT:
Added info:
Removing the memory handler allows this to work within the same zone.
-type: memory

So this might be a work around for this specific use case