What problems does non-authoratative data cause?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Nov 5 18:49:25 UTC 2001


In article <9s6mpo$1gm at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Eivind Olsen  <eivind.olsen at ttyl.com> wrote:
>But what kind of problems will it really cause if the data served by the 
>master DNS is not authoratative for a little while?

Slave servers refuse to transfer from the master if it responds
non-authoritatively to the SOA query.  So the slaves will continue to
respond with obsolete data.

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