I'm sorry, I was thinking about delegation-only option and somehow I was 
convinced it's the auth-nxdomain.

http://www.isc.org/software/bind/delegation-only

Again sorry for confusion, my overworked mind plays tricks with me:-(

Ondřej Surý

On 29.3.2011, at 7:44, [email protected] wrote:

>> No auth-nxdomain means: ignore A/AAAA results if RCODE is NXDOMAIN. Both are
>> meant to stop various "domain helpers".
> 
> Are you absolutely certain?  If so, you should file a bug against the 
> bind9-doc
> package, which says (in /usr/share/doc/bind9-doc/arm/Bv9ARM.ch06.html):
> 
>   auth-nxdomain
>          If yes, then the AA bit is always set on NXDOMAIN responses, even if 
> the
>          server is not actually authoritative. The default is no; this is a 
> change
>          from BIND 8. If you are using very old DNS software, you may need to 
> set
>          it to yes.
> 
> Barry Margolin also said something similar on the bind-users mailing list:
> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2000-June/014535.html
>>> I' ve also read that I should check for the auth-nxdomain option to flag
>>> cashed negative responses as authoritative.
>>> How can I enable or disable this feature?
>> 
>> In named.conf, you can put:
>> 
>> options {
>>  auth-nxdomain no;
>> };
>> 
>> to disable auth-nxdomain.  It's enabled by default.
> 
> I can't seem to find any documentation supporting your statement that
> it somehow changes the processing of *incoming* responses.
> 
> Could you point me at some, please?  Or do I need to RTFS?



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