Master for domain as set in SOA is not visible to world

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8525689C.006EC22F.00 at d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>,
 <lhcash at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>I understand that - but *even* if the master loads correctly, it will
>return answers to queries as "non-authoritative" if it doesn't recognize
>itself in either the SOA
>or NS records - at least, that is the behavior I have observed  (for

I have never seen that.  Try:

dig bbn.com any @dnsauth1.sys.gtei.net

The server is configured as a slave for the domain, but isn't listed in the
NS records, yet it answers authoritatively.

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