Why are reverse lookup shown as authoritative?

blrmaani blrmaani at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 01:51:39 UTC 2006


Desperately waiting for the reply.. please help!..

blr


blrmaani wrote:
> Still waiting for the reply.. DNS experts...please help..!!!!!
>
> Blr
>
> blrmaani wrote:
> > I have a cache-only server [ DNSHOST2 in the picture below ]
> >
> > DNSHOST1  ( authoritative DNS server for zone myzone1.com )
> >      |
> >      |
> > DNSHOST2  ( cache only DNS server )
> >      |
> >      |
> > CLIENTHOST
> >
> > I used nslookup on CLIENTHOST to lookup names and ip-addresses in debug
> > mode.
> >
> > The replies for names shows as non-authoritative whereas replies for IP
> > address
> > shows as authoritative. I was under the impression that all cached
> > replies are always
> > non-authoritative.
> > 
> > Please clarify.
> > 
> > thanks
> > regards
> > Blr



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