bind: how to accept authoritative answers only?

[Mike Tancsa]

At 01:19 AM 1/28/2001 +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
>I think you are mistaken. My name server is able to resolve MX records
>and hostnames for their targets for both zones even though one of
>moody.edu's servers is lame as are both of supercom.ca's as you say.
>The name servers you advertise for sentex.net seem to have no trouble
>resolving the MX records for these zones either. So if you have a
>problem delivering mail to them, it probably lies somewhere other than
>the DNS.

OK, a little more digging and I am starting to think this is something 
FreeBSD specific in the way that sendmail is built on STABLE and perhaps 
the way BIND is built on FreeBSD 3.x.  Suffice to say, FreeBSD using 
generic versions of sendmail 8.11.2 and the latest release BIND, do not 
seem to have these problems. I will follow up in the relevant FreeBSD lists.

         ---Mike


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