bad answers from BIND9 ?
Doug Barton
DougB at DougBarton.net
Fri Dec 13 08:32:35 UTC 2002
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> > So why do the root servers give different answers, as they don't
> > allow recursion?
> >
> > $ dig +short +norec @a.root-servers.net pl ns
>
> > $ dig +short +norec @f.root-servers.net pl ns
>
> I get the same answer to both queries.
My mistake, I was actually using bind 8's dig.
F root is reporting version 9.2.2rc1, which puts the response to an NS
query for a zone it's not authoritative for in the authority section. You
can see the difference if you query it for . (the root zone) without the
+short option. This is actually the correct behavior, since the root
servers aren't authoritative for the TLD zones. BIND 8 got this wrong,
BIND 9 fixes that mistake.
Sorry for the confusion,
Doug
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