On 18/01/2022 13:55, jrd-pdns at jrd.org wrote: > Oops. Yes. Port 53 has a pdns-recursor listening on it, which is > feeding requests to pdns. Want the recursor config too? No need. You asked why the response didn't have the AA flag set, and the answer is because the response came from a recursor - it's as simple as that.