no authoritative answer from master server

[Fernando Soria]

On 11/17/05, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
>

OK it see the problem now...
The problem is me apparently, I'm confusing the output of dig the
"->>HEADER<<-" part there is a AUTHORITY:0 when I query
ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar but if I query ns17.zoneedit.com it prints
AUTHORITY:3 why is that?

#dig @ns17.zoneedit.com ANY dnsdigital.com.ar
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> @ns17.zoneedit.com ANY dnsdigital.com.ar
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58927
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      A       200.59.130.146
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      MX      1 mail.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns17.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      SOA     ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.
soa.dnsdigital.com.ar. 2005102701 28800 7200 2419200 86400

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns17.zoneedit.com.

;; Query time: 238 msec
;; SERVER: 209.126.159.118#53(ns17.zoneedit.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 17 14:28:57 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 221

BUT

# dig @ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar ANY dnsdigital.com.ar

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> @ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar ANY dnsdigital.com.ar
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16370
;; 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 28800 7200 2419200 86400
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
dnsdigital.com.ar.      259200  IN      NS      ns17.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: 30 msec
;; SERVER: 200.59.130.146#53(ns1.dnsdigital.com.ar)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 17 14:29:04 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 211


Thanks you all
Fernando

PS: in the last message endeed is "ns17.zoneedit.com" and no't
"ns17.zoneedit.com.ar"