dns: non-authoritative answer...why?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Reinhardt <colinrei at oz.net> writes:

    Colin> My nameserver responds with non-authoritative answers for
    Colin> the domain which it is the master of.  It should be
    Colin> authoritative.  What would cause this?

Errors in the zone file on the master server. For instance illegal
hostnames, names that exist as CNAMEs and as some other type of
resource record, syntax errors, etc, etc. These will be reported in
the name server's logs. [BTW, you should *always* check the logs when
reloading the name server after zone files or named.conf has been
modified.] However there's no logging{} statement in the named.conf
that you showed, so the name server will send this to syslog's
LOG_DAEMON facility. Where these messages end up after that is
anyone's guess: it'll depend on how you have confgured syslogd. This
is why it's a good idea to explicitly configure the name server's
logging subsystem.