Getting "default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now no" me ssage

[Joe Kattner]

It means that the default behavior of BIND 9 is to not respond with an
authoritative flag for answers that it has cached. BIND 8 did the opposite
(for compatibility reasons).

To remove the message enter the following in you're options statement:

        auth-nxdomain no;

Unless you need the BIND 8 style responses, in which case you'd set it to
yes. You're server will respond with authoritative answers for the domains
you have on it (providing it's set up properly), so there is nothing for you
to fix.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: jhall at blackcodemail.com [mailto:jhall at blackcodemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:33 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Getting "default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now no"
message



I have just installed BIND 9.1.3 on a RedHat 7.1 server.  Everything
seems to be working just fine with the exception of the following
error in the /var/log/messages file:

"Nov 20 13:01:09 server206 named[20897]: the default for the
'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'

Does this mean that my server is not authoritative?  If so, how do I
fix this?  Thanks in advance.

Jeff Hall
Network Administrator
U.S. Army