Intermittent NXDOMAIN, Bind 9.2.3 config and PowerDNS problem?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:40:53AM -0400,
 Richard Michael <rmichael-bind9 at edgeofthenet.org> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> > Indeed, lastminute.com's name servers are severely broken.
> 
> By this, do you mean the SOA record in the response is incorrect? 

Yes.

> the SOA for their own domain

Yes. The authority section can be empty, also.