PowerDNS anyone?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c80nhs$163f$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Bob Lockie <bjlockie at lockie.ca> 
wrote:

> Does anyone know why dig against BIND returns these extra sections but
> PowerDNS does not?
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
> lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns15.zoneedit.com.
> lockie.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns.lockie.ca.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns8.zoneedit.com.       83979   IN      A       216.122.4.151
> ns15.zoneedit.com.      83979   IN      A       69.10.134.195

Returning Authority records and their corresponding Additional records 
is an optional feature of the DNS protocol.  BIND does it (it may be 
configurable, though), and apparently powerDNS doesn't.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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