Re: missing ‘additional section’

[Mark Andrews]

In message <31FECD06-03B0-4EFA-A6D8-91E6C224290B at ucd.ie>, "Niall O'Reilly" writ
es:
> 
> On 18 Dec 2013, at 15:19, houguanghua <houguanghua at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to enable the Additional Section? Thanks.
> 
> 	The server sends data in the additional section if either
> 	(a) these data are required, or (b) the server supports
> 	and is configured to send data which, although not actually 
> 	required, may somehow be useful.
> 
> 	The BIND named configuration option minimal-responses
> 	controls case (b). If this is set to no, and the server
> 	isnt sending data in the additional section, its because
> 	it doesnt have anything useful to put there.
> 
> 	As this option is part of the server configuration, there 
> 	isnt anything you can do with DiG to enable sending of
> 	additional data.
> 
> 	I hope this helps.
> 
> 	Niall OReilly

And as the NS records are sent that means that the zone content is
incomplete.  If you were not using DLZ, named would have rejected
the zone as there were no address records for the nameservers.

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