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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I’m migrating from bind and one thing that I noticed is that bind returns the NS records and the A records for those NS records with every query. I noticed that PowerDNS does not do this and I’m trying to figure out if this will be a problem at all. I assume that returning all that information really isn’t necessary..<BR>
Example:<BR>
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BIND----<BR>
[root@dimsarkeia migrate]# dig @localhost mail.stllc.org IN A<BR>
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; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @localhost mail.stllc.org IN A<BR>
; (1 server found)<BR>
;; global options: printcmd<BR>
;; Got answer:<BR>
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50272<BR>
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2<BR>
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;; QUESTION SECTION:<BR>
;mail.stllc.org. IN A<BR>
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;; ANSWER SECTION:<BR>
mail.stllc.org. 14400 IN A 70.62.222.2<BR>
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;; AUTHORITY SECTION:<BR>
stllc.org. 14400 IN NS ns1.digitalims.net.<BR>
stllc.org. 14400 IN NS ns2.digitalims.net.<BR>
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;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:<BR>
ns1.digitalims.net. 600 IN A 216.58.226.164<BR>
ns2.digitalims.net. 600 IN A 65.221.143.5<BR>
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;; Query time: 3 msec<BR>
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)<BR>
;; WHEN: Mon Jun 29 13:27:05 2009<BR>
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 130<BR>
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PowerDNS-----<BR>
[root@ns1 ~]# dig @localhost mail.stllc.org IN A<BR>
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; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> @localhost mail.stllc.org IN A<BR>
; (1 server found)<BR>
;; global options: printcmd<BR>
;; Got answer:<BR>
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61997<BR>
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<BR>
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;; QUESTION SECTION:<BR>
;mail.stllc.org. IN A<BR>
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;; ANSWER SECTION:<BR>
mail.stllc.org. 14400 IN A 70.62.222.2<BR>
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;; Query time: 0 msec<BR>
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)<BR>
;; WHEN: Mon Jun 29 13:35:14 2009<BR>
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48<BR>
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Can PowerDNS be configured to return the data like BIND does? Is this something I should be concerned with?<BR>
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--jesse</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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