Dig giving different output?

Tue Apr 22 09:49:35 UTC 2008

On 22 Apr 2008, at 02:03, Barry Margolin wrote:

> When you use +trace, dig stops as
> soon as it gets the glue records from the GTLD server.

	AFAICS, it depends on how the glue is presented.  Some parent zone
	servers present the glue in the ANSWER section (IMHO, not the best
	idea).  Others present it in the ADDITIONAL section.

	IIUC, dig +trace stops when it sees an ANSWER which matches the query.

	For an example of either style, try each of the following.

% dig @K.GTLD-SERVERS.net ns1.portline-dns.net a
% dig @NS2.NIC.FR auth-ns1.ucd.ie a


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	Niall O'Reilly
	University College Dublin IT Services

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