Long response for a non-authoritative answers

[Cricket Liu]

> > Personally, I thought the old behavior, of returning the first answer
> > with "aa" set, made a certain amount of sense.
>
> I've always thought the opposite; that it made no sense for a
> non-authoritative server to be returning an authoritative answer. I've
also
> found it annoying to have to set +norec on the query, or repeat it, in
> order to determine whether the server is *really* authoritative for the
> zone or not.

I thought of the previous behavior as, "I just asked the authoritative
name servers, so the response it still authoritative" (by some sort of
DNS transitivity, I guess).  Specifying non-recursive queries never
bothered me.

cricket

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