no authoritative answer from master server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dlghpj$1f60$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Fernando Soria <nandoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> My doubt it's wen I do a query of the type ANY I forgot that... dig
> when no type is specified perform a lookup of the A record...
> like this:
> #dig @ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar ANY dnsdigital.com.ar <-- no authoritative answer
> #dig @ns17.zoneedit.com.ar ANY dnsdigital.com.ar <-- authoritative answer

A BIND server is either authoritative for a zone or not, it shouldn't 
matter what record type is specified in the query.  I've seen 
type-specific differences with some non-BIND servers, but never with 
BIND.

Anyway, it's authoritative when I try it:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar any dnsdigital.com.ar +multi
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18610
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dnsdigital.com.ar.  IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN SOA ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar. 
soa.dnsdigital.com.ar. (
            2005102701 ; serial
            28800      ; refresh (8 hours)
            7200       ; retry (2 hours)
            2419200    ; expire (4 weeks)
            86400      ; minimum (1 day)
            )
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN NS ns17.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN NS ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN NS ns8.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN MX 1 mail.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.   259200 IN A 200.59.130.146

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.  259200 IN A 200.59.130.146
mail.dnsdigital.com.ar. 259200 IN A 200.59.130.146

;; Query time: 189 msec
;; SERVER: 200.59.130.146#53(ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 17 01:12:12 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 211

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