DNS is Non Authoritative

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199908182157.HAA22884 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>,
 <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>	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.

BTW, I think the wording of that log message is particularly poor.  In the
context of the words "unapproved AXFR", one would naturally assume that
"auth" is short for "authorized", referring to the client.  What it
actually means is "authoritative", referring to itself.

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