authoritive??!??

[Brad]

 The only error I see in the logs is that there is no ttl set (although its
in there??) and it uses default. apart from that logs tell me no errors...
 This has got me buggered :)
Brad

Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:YmnG4.11$cS2.507 at burlma1-snr2...
> In article <8cc3c1$m6v$1 at bugstomper.ihug.com.au>,
> Brad <bradk at aulink.net> wrote:
> >I have a small problem....I am getting feedback from a site that is
saying
> >my nameserver is not authoritive for the domain.....here is the first few
> >lines minus the timout figures....
> >
> >aulink.net.             IN      SOA     name.aulink.net.
admin.aulink.net.
> >aulink.net.             IN      NS      name.aulink.net.
> >                                        A       203.42.220.209
> >
> > Can anyone help me out? Should the bit after the SOA be changed to just
> >aulink.net instead of name.aulink.net (the nameservers hostname)
> > I did have it that way actually but still got reports that it was wrong,
> >although it has only been from this one site...
> > any help much appreciated
>
> The name you put after SOA is pretty much ignored, and has no effect on
> whether the server considers itself authoritative.  A server makes itself
> non-aurhoritative if it detects syntax errors in the file.  When you load
> the zone, syntax error messages will be reported to the log file, and
> they'll tell you the precise line that the problem is on.
>
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