NEWBIE Authoriative or non-authorative?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8cc643$iic$1 at canard.ulcc.ac.uk>,
Clive Gould <clive at bromley.ac.uk> wrote:
>Can someone please tell me what is the difference between an authortive and
>a non-authoratative answer to a DNS query?

An authoritative answer is one that came from a server that is configured
to host that particular zone, either as a master or slave.

A non-authoritative answer is one that came from the cache of some other
server.  Also, a master or slave server will return non-authoritative
answers if it detected an error when load the zone into memory.

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