Authoritative vs. Non-authoritative with 9.1.0

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Mar 6 23:50:07 UTC 2001


> 
> Using nslookup on a nameserver running BIND 8, initial queries for
> outside hosts were returned as Authoritative answers and subsequent
> queries as Non-authoritative, since the latter were answered from
> cache.  But with the BIND 9 server all answers to queries for outside
> hosts are returned as Non-authoritative.  Is this a change?  
> 

	Yes.  All answers to non-authoratative data are from the cache.
	The only exception is update forwarding.

> 
> -- 
> Gary Staley
> 
> 
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