Bind 9.1.0 rc7

[Roy Arends]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Roy Arends wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, George Crook wrote:
> >
> > > Although bind 9 seems to return the same SOA information, the rcode =
> > > NXDOMAIN, rather than NOERROR ?
> >
> > What happens is that the actual authoritative server
> > ([a-m].root-servers.net) are giving a "NODATA" response. Name is valid,
> > though no data for it (there probably exist a x.205.in-addr.arpa). It
> > answers with a NOERROR + empty answer section. This is, following the
> > examples you give us, cached on a version 8 machine exactly how it gets it
> > and on the version 9 machine as a NXDOMAIN.
> 
> Isn't it rather bogus for BIND 9 to "convert" a NODATA into NXDOMAIN?

It is, but I was going from the given examples. NODATA should not be
converted to NXDOMAIN.

Regards,
Roy Arends
Nominum