nameserver gives non-authoritative reply ???

[Kevin Darcy]

It's probably answering non-authoritatively because the master zone didn't
load properly. Are there syntax errors in the zone file? Look at your logs
during load time.


- Kevin

Prashant Ranade wrote:

> hello...
> I have an internal DNS running on rh 6.2 kernel 2.2.16-3
> everything is working fine but it is giving non-authoritative responces
> even to queries which machines are in its database files.
>
> the resolve.conf is :
> search iospanwireless.com
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> when I am on the nameserver machine "admin" and do a "nslookup admin"
> it comes back with a right answer but is non-authoritative.
> for example :
> [root at admin named]# nslookup admin
> Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    admin.iospanwireless.com
> Address:  192.168.0.12
>
> why is this? the server has the entry for "admin" in its
> /var/named/named.iospanwireless which is the database file. and the same
>
> file is in the /etc/named.conf
>
> can someone pl help?
>
> TIA
> Prashant