DNS is Non Authoritative

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Gocher <rgocher at coptalk.com> writes:
> 
>     Rick> I have been going over this multiple times and have the main
>     Rick> domain resolving.  I added a new zone and it seems to load
>     Rick> ok from named.conf except nslookup fails with an Unspecified
>     Rick> error, and the message logs tells me the following after
>     Rick> failing nslookup.
> 
>     Rick> Aug 18 07:33:20 hostname named[21303]: unapproved AXFR from
>     Rick> [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx].1187 for "domain.com" (not auth)
> 
> The message is clear enough. The name server on hostname rejected a
> zone transfer request for domain.com which came from port 1187 of IP
> address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Looks like your name server is applying an
> access control list which doesn't let xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx do zone
> transfers.
> 
> 
	If that was the case it would have "(acl)" not "(not auth)".
	"(not auth)" is generated under two conditions.

		1. there was an error loading the zone.
		2. the zone is not served by the server.

	Mark
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