BIND does not answer

[Tony Finch]

Christian Tardif <christian.tardif at servinfo.ca> wrote:
>
> Back to a DNS problem, I  came back to this thread. If I do a "dig +norec", I
> still don't get the final answer but then, I get a whole bunch of information
> (the NS records for the requested zone, and the A records relativey to these
> NS records)

That means the local name server is giving you a referral: it is telling
you where to get the answer from, which isn't the local name server.

Tony.
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