[Pdns-users] additional sections for BIND?

Bob Lockie bjlockie at lockie.ca
Thu May 13 02:08:05 UTC 2004


Why does a dig against BIND return  extra authority and addittion 
sections and PowerDNS does not?

# dig ns.lockie.ca

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> ns.lockie.ca
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46741
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns.lockie.ca.                  IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.lockie.ca.           86400   IN      A       216.168.107.222

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns15.zoneedit.com.
lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns.lockie.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns8.zoneedit.com.       83979   IN      A       216.122.4.151
ns15.zoneedit.com.      83979   IN      A       69.10.134.195

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost)
;; WHEN: Wed May 12 22:05:10 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 141


# dig ns.lockie.ca -p 5300

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> ns.lockie.ca -p 5300
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24172
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns.lockie.ca.                  IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.lockie.ca.           3600    IN      A       216.168.107.222

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#5300(localhost)
;; WHEN: Wed May 12 22:05:17 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 46


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