No auth-nxdomain means: ignore A/AAAA results if RCODE is NXDOMAIN. Both are 
meant to stop various "domain helpers".

Ondřej Surý

On 29.3.2011, at 3:18, [email protected] wrote:

>> This has been already implemented in any Bind9 as:
>> 
>> options {
>> auth-nxdomain no;
>> };
> 
> Um, huh?  How does that have anything to do with blocking DNS hijacking?
> 
> "auth-nxdomain no" means "do not set the Authoritative Answer bit on
> NXDOMAIN results".  The "dickheads" patch says "the following IP addresses
> are DNS hijacking servers, so translate any A query that returns them
> to NXDOMAIN".
> 
> Did something get mixed up?
> 
> Thank you!



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