[Pdns-users] not authoritative answer

[Sherwin Daganato]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:45:42PM +0200, Romeo wrote:

[...]

> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> onlydocg.it SOA @212.131.193.3
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8784
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

[...]

> This is all ok except AUTHORITY: 0.
> 
> For this reason I got an error from nic (www.nic.it) when I tryed to set 
> this server as dns server.
> The error is:
> *ERROR*: DNS not authoritative

I don't know how you got this error, but I'm pretty sure that the above
response from 212.131.193.3 is authoritative. The response has the 'aa'
(authoritative answer) flag set in header section.

HTH