What will break: "Non-authoritative answer"
Farid Hamjavar
hamjavar at unm.edu
Thu Jun 7 02:46:23 UTC 2001
You all ,I am sure, have come across the situation
where due some reasons, syntax error in named.conf or
some other configuration errors large or small, got
the "Non-authoritative answer" from your DNS server of
the domain you admin. i.e. you looked up something
and got the correct answer alright, but you also
see the "Non-authoritative answer" message. You got
"Non-authoritative answer" on a lookup of something for
which your DNS server is supposed to be authoritative!
Considering the explanation above, here is my question.
When in an environment that provides net services like
mail,web,ftp,etc,etc what services suffer and become
dysfunctional if name-server behave the way explained above?
Has anyone compiled a list? e.g. Will MTA of various flavors
(sendmail,qmail,etc) become paralyzed if name-server they
point to behave the way explained above?
Thanks,
Farid
UNM
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