bad answers from BIND9 ?
Simon Waters
Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 12 18:10:52 UTC 2002
Pawel Krzesniak wrote:
>
> is it ok? shoudn't BIND9 do an answer in ANSWER section, not in AUTHORITY ?
> according to RFC1034:
> Question Carries the query name and other query parameters.
> Answer Carries RRs which directly answer the query.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah but this is a referral not an answer, which according to
rfc1034 should go in the authority section <4.3.2) 3) b)>,
indeed their example of a referral has an empty answer section.
I hope it is okay, otherwise we have a big problem ;-)
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