Long response for a non-authoritative answers

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Sep 20 22:42:14 UTC 2001


> But if the answer came from the authoritative server, it should be an
> authoritative answer.  If the answer is non-authoritative, it means it came
> from the cache, so the response time shouldn't have been long.

	This doesn't hold true with BIND 9.  AA is only set on answers
	which come from data that the server is hosting.  If it has to
	go out and fetch the data that will then be cached and the
	lookup process resumed, which will fetch it from the cache.

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