Not authoritative

[James K. McConnell]

> We've been seeing this in our DNS recently... but nothing has changed in 
> the config, and as far as I can see everything is okay:
> 
>   not authoritative for ourdomain.com, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 
> 0, ancount 
> 1, aucount 0
> 
> What is this indicative of... a typo somewhere perhaps?

I had the same problem recently.  It seems someone threw some invalid 
comment characters in the zone files.  Everything still worked, yet the
entire zone was non-authoritative.  Once I cleared out all the '#' chars,
everything was happy.

Jim