9.1.0 upgrade

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Feb 16 21:51:07 UTC 2001


On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:47PM -0500, meganet DOMAINREG wrote:
...
> >From the bind 9 docs:
> 
> If yes, then the AA bit is always set on NXDOMAIN responses, even if the
> server is not actually authoritative. The default is no; this is a change
> from BIND 8. If you are using very old DNS software, you may need to set it
> to yes.
> 
> But anyone know what the AA bit is?

RFC 1034 - Authoritative Answer bit.  This agrees with the context.

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