Hmmm...

[Pete Ehlke]

Legal answer to the question asked?


; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> nic.uy ns @SECIU.EDU.uy.
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34999
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nic.uy.                                IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nic.uy.                 86400   IN      CNAME   www.nic.org.uy.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nic.org.uy.             86400   IN      SOA     seciu.uy. teccom.seciu.uy. 200312121 10800 3600 432000 86400

;; Query time: 194 msec
;; SERVER: 164.73.128.5#53(SECIU.EDU.uy.)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan  5 23:25:16 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 99

Another allegedly authoritative server omits the aa bit on the
response:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> nic.uy ns @NS.UU.NET
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50815
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nic.uy.                                IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nic.uy.                 86400   IN      CNAME   www.nic.org.uy.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
org.uy.                 86400   IN      NS      seciu.uy.
org.uy.                 86400   IN      NS      ultra.edu.uy.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
seciu.uy.               86400   IN      A       164.73.128.5
ultra.edu.uy.           86400   IN      A       164.73.128.70

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 137.39.1.3#53(NS.UU.NET)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan  5 23:26:27 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 126


Very odd.

-Pete