non-autoritative answer

[Tony Earnshaw]

Jack Watts wrote:

> When I query my server with NSLOOKUP I get "non-autoritative answer" for some sites,
> when other non-autoritative servers for that domain do give me "non-autoritative answer" message.
> Is this a misconfiguration?

If you use dig instead of nslookup, you will always be given the extra
info. on which nameserver(s) is (are) authoritative for that FQDN, in
which case you'd never get that kind of an answer. 'man dig' will tell
you very explicitely why you should be using dig - and not nslookup.
host -a is even more explicit.

Tony

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