Non-authoritative answer

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Jun 7 22:23:55 UTC 1999



sge at globalnet.co.uk wrote:
> 
> I've tried both.  When on another machine I set the type to MX and then type let say another mail address and it comes back ok, second time round and it comes Non-authorative as you would expect because its cached.
> However when I try my domain it always comes with a Non-authorative answer, no matter if you change the refresh, or kill the name server's cache or whatever.

Can you be specific?

What name are you doing the lookup for?
What machine are you doing the lookup on?
Is the machine your client is querying an authoritative server for the
domain being queried?



> Could it be something to do with reverse ip lookup?

Not unless you are query the reverse domain.

Michael



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