Primary NS give only Non-authoritative answer

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jan 21 19:22:28 UTC 2000


In article <869ovf$i4v$1 at news.b-1.de.contrib.net>,
Falko Niemz <niemz at pisa.de> wrote:
>We have our own NS (bind4) for a private Network that runs on a HPUX
>machine. For all Adresses, including loopback, gives this NS only
>Non-authoritative answers.
>
>In the "/etc/named.boot" file are these domains primary entries.
>Every datafile has an NS entry.
>
>What can I do, that the Nameservice give authoritative answers.

This usually means there's a syntax error in the zone file.  If you check
your log when restarting named you'll see the error message, which will
tell you precisely which line has the error.

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