No authority section

[Kevin Darcy]

SkInC47 wrote:

>Hi
>i've installed bind 9.2.2 but i have a "little" problem ;)
>when i start "dig any puntoacapo.com" (puntoacapo.com is my domain) i
>see :
>
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17897
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL:
>2
>
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;puntoacapo.com.                        IN      ANY
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>puntoacapo.com.         86400   IN      SOA     ns.puntoacapo.com.
>info.puntoacapo.com. 2005022001 86400 21600 3600000 3600
>puntoacapo.com.         86400   IN      NS      ns2.puntoacapo.com.
>puntoacapo.com.         86400   IN      NS      ns.puntoacapo.com.
>puntoacapo.com.         86400   IN      MX      10
>mail.puntoacapo.com.
>
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>ns.puntoacapo.com.      86400   IN      A       217.15.209.88
>ns2.puntoacapo.com.     86400   IN      A       217.15.209.87
>
>there is no authority section..why?
>
An Authority Section would be redundant in this case, since it would 
merely repeat the NS records that are already present in the Answer Section.

                                                                         
                                 - Kevin