zone transfers from non authoritive dns

[Kevin Darcy]

Mipam wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was trying to receive some zone file from a dns machine and encountered
>this message:
>(i had permission from the admins to transfer the zones)
>
>/usr/libexec/named-xfer -z zorgthuis.nl -f /bla/db.zorgthuis.nl -s 0 a.b.c.d
>
>named-xfer[58897]: [a.b.c.d] not authoritative for zorgthuis.nl, SOA 
>query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 0, aucount 1
>
>with dig:
>
>dig @a.b.c.d zorgthuis.nl axfr
>
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @a.b.c.d zorgthuis.nl axfr
>; (1 server found)
>;; Received 0 answers (0 records).
>;; FROM: my.dns.server.com to SERVER: a.b.c.d
>;; WHEN: Thu Aug  5 18:34:58 2004
>
>Is it possible that only from my machine i am encountering this or 
>shouldnt anybody be able to transfer that zone from a.b.c.d because its 
>not authoritive?
>
It should affect everyone, unless they have "view"s set up and the 
server's authoritativeness for the zone is different for different "view"s.

- Kevin