[Pdns-users] question about authority (im sure this has been asked a 100 times, sorry!)

[Сергей Беляев]

Hi.

On 28.03.2006, 23:47 you wrote:

> Yes they are:
>> dig @ns1.dreamhost.com domain.com
>> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>                ^^
> This means 'Authoritative Answer'. The presence or absence of the SOA record
> is not of relevance.

I have the similar trouble.

# dig binary.ru @82.199.96.131

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> binary.ru @82.199.96.131
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35062
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;binary.ru.                     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
binary.ru.              86400   IN      A       82.199.96.133

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 82.199.96.131#53(82.199.96.131)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 29 07:02:10 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43


UDP query returns authoritative answer, but TCP query doesn't

# dig binary.ru @82.199.96.131 +tcp

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> binary.ru @82.199.96.131 +tcp
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21843
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;binary.ru.                     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
binary.ru.              86400   IN      A       82.199.96.133

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 82.199.96.131#53(82.199.96.131)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 29 07:02:12 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 52