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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hello,<br><br>When we are getting Additional Section for a DNS Response like this, What is the need for this ADDITIONAL SECTION? Why is this <b>ADDITIONAL SECTION </b>returned? Is there a way to turn off these <b>ADDITIONAL RESPONSE</b> messages from the DNS Server?<br><br>dig _sip._udp.belur.inlab.com SRV<br><br>; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6 <<>> _sip._udp.belur.inlab.com SRV<br>;; global options: +cmd<br>;; Got answer:<br>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62992<br>;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2<br>;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available<br><br>;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>;_sip._udp.belur.inlab.com. IN SRV<br><br>;; ANSWER SECTION:<br>_sip._udp.belur.inlab.com. 60 IN SRV 0 0 11199 belur.inlab.com.<br><br>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:<br>inlab.com. 60 IN NS sbxlinux3.inlab.com.<br><br><b>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:</b><br>belur.inlab.com. 60 IN A 10.54.80.14<br>sbxlinux3.inlab.com. 60 IN A 10.54.78.21<br><br>Thanks<br>Harshith<br> </div></body>
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