Problems after 8.3.3 upgrade

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

> 	The problem is that "aa" is not set in flags and should
> 	be.  As a result the answer is being rejected.
>
> 	Mark
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> click.shopping.yahoo.com @NS1.yahoo.com +norec
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62871
> ;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 12
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;	click.shopping.yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> click.shopping.yahoo.com.  30M IN CNAME  click.shopping.yahoo.akadns.net.


Hmmm.... are you sure that the yahoo.com name server should set AA on a
referral? It sets it on things it's actually authoritative for:

dig @ns1.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. soa

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. soa
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      yahoo.com, type = SOA, class = IN



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