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

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Jan-Piet Mens via Pdns-users wrote:

> > $ 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.

To elaborate: the numbers are the amount of records in each section.

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