authoritative or not?

[Kevin Darcy]

The only reason for a master to be answering non-authoritatively is that the
zone didn't load properly. Look in your logs for load problems. Maybe there's
syntax error somewhere in the part of the zone file you didn't show.


- Kevin

beetle bailey wrote:

> 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.
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