Non-delegated subdomain?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <874rab$3gd$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <gmcafee at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Is it normal to get a non-authoritative answer to a query for a RR that
>belongs to a non-delegated subdomain?  For example, if I have something
>like:

No, it's not normal.  A server is authoritative for zones, not domains.
Names in non-delegated subdomains are part of the same zone.  The server
should be authoritative for the whole zone or none of it.

>fred.com SOA ...
>
>         NS barney.fred.com.
>barney   A  x.x.x.x
>
>_ftp.tcp SRV 1 1 21 wilma.fred.com.
>wilma    A   y.y.y.y
>
>and I query the SRV record with nslookup, I get a non-authoritative
>answer back.  Thus I'm assuming that the name server thinks the SRV
>actually belongs to the 'tcp.fred.com' domain and views the SRV RR as
>part of a non-delegated subdomain of 'fred.com'.
>
>1) Are my assumptions accurate?
>2) If so, how do I get an authoritative answer for the SRV?
>3) If I'm all washed up, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

I don't know.  Are you sure it's returning authoritative answers for
barney.fred.com and wilma.fred.com?

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