From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 14:10:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dra.com (mail.dra.com [192.65.218.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9139037B404 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:10:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from stlmail.dra.com (stlmail.dra.com [192.65.218.119]) by mail.dra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA18537; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:39 -0600 (CST) Received: by stlmail.dra.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:08 -0600 Message-ID: From: Eric Six To: "'Patrick O'Reilly'" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 The SOA for the domain is located in the actual file for the zone, at the top of it.. ie.. @ IN SOA ns1.dillhole.com. root.dillhole.com. That tell's it what NS is the SOA for that domain. If you have control of the domain, that should match the name of the nameserver that file resides on. Otherwise, you will get non-authorative answers. Cheers, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Patrick O'Reilly [mailto:bsd@perimeter.co.za] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:57 PM To: art@pilikia.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ? Arthur, thanks for your reply. This is what I understood, but this one DNS server I have simply refuses to realise that it is authoritative. The 'NS' record matches the server, and the zone entry in the 'named.conf' file specifies that this is a 'master' for the zone. I'm stumped! Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: Arthur W. Neilson III [mailto:art@pilikia.net] Sent: Monday, 11 March 2002 20:11 To: Patrick O'Reilly Subject: Re: Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative DNS ? a DNS server will answer authoratatively for domains which it has a SOA record for i.e. if you do a whois for a domain and you see the nameservers listed at the bottom of the whois output those nameservers should answer authoratatively for that domain. Authoratative nameservers are masters for the zones in their database. On 3/11/02 at 11:52 AM Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > >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 i -- __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N - FISTS #7448 Bank of Hawaii Network Services http://www.pilikia.net art@pilikia.net, aneilson@boh.com, wh7n@arrl.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message