ignoring incorrect nameservers in authority section
pyh at mail.nsbeta.info
pyh at mail.nsbeta.info
Thu Dec 30 09:59:03 UTC 2010
Sunil Shetye writes:
> Quoting from pyh at mail.nsbeta.info's mail on Thu, Dec 30, 2010:
>> What's the difference between these two flags in the response of
>> dig?
>>
>> < ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ra : recursion available
> The nameserver is ready to ask other nameservers for the record we
> queried.
>
> As the 'aa' flag is also missing above, the answer is not authoritative.
>
>> >;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> aa : authoritative answer
> The nameserver is authoritative for the zone of the record that we
> queried.
>
> As the 'ra' flag is also missing above, the nameserver will not do a
> lookup for you for records it does not know about.
>
Thanks a lot.
Where is the document for these flags?
I google'd but got no correct result :)
Regards.
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