dig AUTHORITY:0 for secondary zone

[Ladislav Vobr]

can somebody explain, why sec3.apnic.net showing 0 authority records for
ae. domain. It is a one of our secondaries, but before adding it at the
root zone, IANA requires the authority section to be defined. We have
ns.ripe.net. and other two .ae secondaries all are returning authority
records.

#dig ae. soa @sec3.apnic.net

; <<>> DiG 8.4 <<>> ae. soa @sec3.apnic.net
; (2 servers found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10668
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      ae, type = SOA, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ae.                     3H IN SOA       ns1.uaenic.ae.
hostmaster.mail.emirates.net.ae. (
                                         9011            ; serial
                                         30M             ; refresh
                                         5M              ; retry
                                         1W              ; expiry
                                         3H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 182 msec
;; FROM: ns2 to SERVER: 202.12.28.140
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 29 11:03:38 2003
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 20  rcvd: 96


Ladislav