Servfail When Resolving certain domains

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Dec 11 18:49:29 UTC 2001


> That is why if understand why a zone forward work and a standard config.
> does not then I can with confidence tell them why there is a problem.

	Because the standard config is expecting to be talking to servers
	that are authoritative.  When you are using a forward zone the
	server is *not* expecting to be talking to a authoritative server
	but rather a caching server and caching servers don't set 'aa'
	whereas authoritative servers do.  The servers in question are
	not setting 'aa' in the answers (indicating that they detected
	a error on load) and named is rejecting their answers as bad.

	Mark
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