authoritative or not?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> doing a dig against our master nameserver for an soa record for one of our 
> subdomains came back w/the authoritative bit off and i'm wondering why.  
> here's a bit of named.conf:
> 
> directory "/named";
> 
> zone "subdomain.test.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "tmp/com.test.subdomain";
> };
> 
> 
> and here's the beginning of the zone file in /named/tmp:
> 
> $ORIGIN test.com.
> subdomain            IN      SOA     ns.test.com. root.subdomain.test.com. ( 
> 2000111300 3600 3600 24000 14000 )
> 
> <followed by various ns, mx, and a records>
> 
> i thought that if i dig against ns.test.com i should get a response with the 
> authoritative bit set, but that's not happening.  can someone explain that 
> for me?  thanks.

	See your log files for the answer.  It will be there.

	Mark
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