From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 1:47: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975A437B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 01:46:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (loopback.mipjhb [209.212.102.245] (may be forged)) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g2B9km548610 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:46:49 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Message-ID: <025401c1c8e2$95538f50$b50d030a@patrick> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:52:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all. What determines whether a DNS server will answer a query authoritatively, or not? I have two DNS servers on private networks serving their private domains as "master" servers according the named.conf. One responds authoritatively within its own domain, and the other always responds with this warning line: ------------------------------ Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.domain.com Address: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd ------------------------------ I cannot see what I have done differently! Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message