Are secondary servers authoritative?

[B.J. Sanaee]

On 30 Mar 2000, Rick Osterberg wrote:

> Simple question that I've searched for and can't find a straight
> answer.  If server ns2.acme.com is a _secondary_ server for the domain
> acme.com (perhaps the primary is ns1.acme.com), should ns2.acme.com be
> returning authoritative or non-authoritative responses to queries for the
> domain acme.com?

  Yep, secondary servers should return authoritative answers.

  B.J.