Auth Section & Forwarders

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4F106E5A.5090108 at gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_F=E1bregas?= writ
es:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I recently disabled "minimal-responses" (by setting it to 'no') in our
> caching nameservers.
> 
> As I'm now able to see the authority & additional sections I noticed
> something strange:  whenever I query our caching nameservers for one of
> our domains we get our parent nameservers under the authority section
> (instead of our own authoritative nameservers).
> 
> I soon realized that there might be some problem with our forward zones
> (since we have our domains defined as such).  I disabled the forward
> zone stanza, reloaded the config, and the problem went away (I know get
> our authoritative nameservers within the authority section).
> 
> Does anyone knows what may be happening?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jorge

The nameserver is returning "the closest available" nameservers.  These
are usually the nameservers for the zone but not always.

Mark
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