Questions about "incomplete" additional data

[Cricket Liu]

> > Actually, Matt asked what a BIND name server does when it
> > *receives* a referral that's missing one or more A RRs in
> > its additional data.
> > 
> > It looks to me from a cursory reading of ns_resp() in ns_resp.c
> > that this gets done as soon as you try to use the NS RRset.  You
> > call nslookup(), which finds those A RRs we have cached via
> > nlookup() and gets the rest using sysquery().  Is that close?
> 
> Yes.
> In answer to Matt's bias question.  Yes there is a slight bias.

Thanks, Mark!

cricket