Non-Authoritative reponse?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Nov 4 22:20:36 UTC 1999


In article <3821C1DA.30C526BB at acp.org>,
David Spigelman  <dspigelm at acp.org> wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I upgraded to BIND 8 several weeks ago, and it's been running pretty
>well. The one problem still plaguing me is that I have a couple of
>very-small subdomains that don't seem to be answering properly. When I
>do an nslookup on them, the response I get is unauthoritative.
>
>Here's an example:
>
>$ nslookup aip.acp.org
>Server:  exeter.acp.org
>Address:  149.28.112.2
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    aip.acp.org
>Address:  149.28.226.101
>
>The problem is that exeter.acp.org *is* the authoritative server! So
>what am I doing wrong? Here's the named file for that domain:

If you checked your syslog, you would see a message saying "No NS records
at zone top".  This is treated like a syntax error, and the server makes
itself non-authoritative.

>$TTL    3600
>@               IN      SOA     exeter.acp.org. postmaster.acp.org. (
>                                1999110400
>                                3600
>                                300
>                                3600000
>                                1800 )
>                IN      MX      10 acpgate.acp.org.
>                IN      MX      50 exeter.acp.org.
>                IN      MX      50 defiant.acp.org.
>                IN      A       149.28.226.101
>
>$ORIGIN aip.acp.org.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>
>--
>
>
>---------------------------
>David Spigelman
>Network Administrator
>American Center for Physics
>College Park, MD
>
>
>


-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.


More information about the bind-users mailing list