Authoritative Answer bit, SOA and NS

[Sebastian Castro]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:57:35PM +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <a40s7d$91t at pub3.rc.vix.com>,

> >;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 9
> >                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Authority is zero, why?
> 
> That's not the Authoritative Answer bit, that's the number of records in
> the Authority Section of the response.  And as you can see, there's nothing
> in that section -- all the NS records are in the Answer Section.
> 
> >---> Here Authority is non zero, why the difference?
> 
> This time, you didn't ask for NS records, so they were put in the Authority
> Section of the response rather than the Answer Section.  There are 12 NS
> records listed there, aren't there?
> 

Yes, they are. Thanks for the clarification.

Is it possible to "view" if the AA bit is set using dig?

I know is posible to do it using a perl module called Net::DNS, but I
haven't tried with dig.

Sorry for bothering.

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