[Pdns-users] Authoritative PDNS gives back non-authoritative Answers for records

[Jan-Piet Mens]

>$ dig test.example1.mydomain.com @<ip-of-my secondary>
>; <<>> DiG 9.18.28-0ubuntu0.22.04.1-Ubuntu
>...
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

>As you can see above "AUTHORITY: 0" is a none authoritative answer

AUTHORITY has nothing to do with wether the answer is authoritative. You need
to look at the flags: this query has RD (recursion desired) and RA (recursion
available), meaning you are querying a recursive server and hence no AA (authoritative
answer) in the flags.

BTW, obfuscation isn't ever helpful for having people help on a mailing list [1]


	-JP

[1] https://blog.powerdns.com/2016/01/18/open-source-support-out-in-the-open