bad answers from BIND9 ? (fwd)

[Miroslaw Luc]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Simon Waters wrote:

> Pawel Krzesniak wrote:
> >
> > is it ok? shoudn't BIND9 do an answer in ANSWER section, not in AUTHORITY ?
> > according to RFC1034:
> > Question        Carries the query name and other query parameters.
> > Answer          Carries RRs which directly answer the query.
> >                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Ah but this is a referral not an answer, which according to

Right, but bind8 says:
; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @dns.nask.pl a.pl. ns +norecurse
; (2 servers found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      a.pl, type = NS, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
a.pl.                   1D IN NS        ns2.nss.pl.
a.pl.                   1D IN NS        ns1.nss.pl.

So it is not referral but answer.

-Mirek