diff --git a/bin/rndc/rndc.rst b/bin/rndc/rndc.rst
index b59f62e672..0559ed7339 100644
--- a/bin/rndc/rndc.rst
+++ b/bin/rndc/rndc.rst
@@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ Currently supported commands are:
 
    The first list includes all unique clients that are waiting for
    recursion to complete, including the query that is awaiting a
-   response and the timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch) of
-   when named started processing this client query.
+   response, the timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch) of
+   when named started processing this client query, the client's
+   address, and the transport over which the the query was received
+   (UDP, TCP, TLS, or HTTP).
 
    The second list comprises of domains for which there are active
    (or recently active) fetches in progress.  It reports the number
diff --git a/lib/dns/include/dns/transport.h b/lib/dns/include/dns/transport.h
index b8845208e3..15892e46d8 100644
--- a/lib/dns/include/dns/transport.h
+++ b/lib/dns/include/dns/transport.h
@@ -204,3 +204,9 @@ dns_transport_list_detach(dns_transport_list_t **listp);
  *\li	'listp' is not NULL.
  *\li	'*listp' is a valid transport list.
  */
+
+const char *
+dns_transport_totext(dns_transport_type_t type);
+/*%<
+ * Convert a transport type value into a string.
+ */
diff --git a/lib/dns/transport.c b/lib/dns/transport.c
index b2328d144c..52bb6bce39 100644
--- a/lib/dns/transport.c
+++ b/lib/dns/transport.c
@@ -772,3 +772,19 @@ dns_transport_list_detach(dns_transport_list_t **listp) {
 		transport_list_destroy(list);
 	}
 }
+
+const char *
+dns_transport_totext(dns_transport_type_t type) {
+	switch (type) {
+	case DNS_TRANSPORT_UDP:
+		return ("udp");
+	case DNS_TRANSPORT_TCP:
+		return ("tcp");
+	case DNS_TRANSPORT_TLS:
+		return ("tls");
+	case DNS_TRANSPORT_HTTP:
+		return ("https");
+	default:
+		UNREACHABLE();
+	}
+}
diff --git a/lib/ns/client.c b/lib/ns/client.c
index cc76632f0b..76293eda45 100644
--- a/lib/ns/client.c
+++ b/lib/ns/client.c
@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ static void
 compute_cookie(ns_client_t *client, uint32_t when, const unsigned char *secret,
 	       isc_buffer_t *buf);
 
-#ifdef HAVE_DNSTAP
 static dns_transport_type_t
 ns_client_transport_type(const ns_client_t *client) {
 	/*
@@ -186,7 +185,6 @@ ns_client_transport_type(const ns_client_t *client) {
 
 	return DNS_TRANSPORT_UDP;
 }
-#endif /* HAVE_DNSTAP */
 
 void
 ns_client_recursing(ns_client_t *client) {
@@ -2921,10 +2919,12 @@ ns_client_dumprecursing(FILE *f, ns_clientmgr_t *manager) {
 		}
 		UNLOCK(&client->query.fetchlock);
 		fprintf(f,
-			"; client %s%s%s: id %u '%s/%s/%s'%s%s "
+			"; client %s (%s)%s%s: id %u '%s/%s/%s'%s%s "
 			"requesttime %u\n",
-			peerbuf, sep, name, client->message->id, namebuf,
-			typebuf, classbuf, origfor, original,
+			peerbuf,
+			dns_transport_totext(ns_client_transport_type(client)),
+			sep, name, client->message->id, namebuf, typebuf,
+			classbuf, origfor, original,
 			isc_time_seconds(&client->requesttime));
 		client = ISC_LIST_NEXT(client, rlink);
 	}