Non-authoritative answer:

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8e3omc$g608 at news.jnj.be>,
Colin Sabine <csabine at ocdgb.jnj.com> wrote:
>OK, I've specified zone 'A'(master) in my named.conf, along with its
>in-addr.arpa zone. I've created the relevent files with correct(?) entries.
>Now, when I run nslookup I get a correct reply - But, it is a
>non-authoritative answer.

Check your syslog file for warnings that named produced when loading the
zone.

>So my question is what is the definition of an authoritative answer?

The answer has the "AA" flag set in the header.

>What criteria should my server meet for it to be authoritative?

If the server is master or slave for the zone and it loaded the zone file
without any errors.

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