Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-09 Thread SM
At 00:04 08-07-2011, Chris Buxton wrote: As for Kevin's assertion that the SOA record in the authority section is required for a negative response, this is also incorrect. RFC 2308 is a proposed standard, not a standard. Further, section 8 of this RFC does not say explicitly that an SOA must

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Feng He wrote: 2011/7/8 Kevin Darcy k...@chrysler.com: I think it's worth emphasizing that in the first case, the contents of the Authority Section were *mandatory* (see RFC 2308, Negative Caching), whereas in the second case the authoritative nameserver was

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-08 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 7/8/2011 3:04 AM, Chris Buxton wrote: On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Feng He wrote: 2011/7/8 Kevin Darcyk...@chrysler.com: I think it's worth emphasizing that in the first case, the contents of the Authority Section were *mandatory* (see RFC 2308, Negative Caching), whereas in the second case

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 7/8/2011 3:04 AM, Chris Buxton wrote: As for Kevin's assertion that the SOA record in the authority section is required for a negative response, this is also incorrect. RFC 2308 is a proposed standard, not a standard. OK, I stand

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-07 Thread Torinthiel
On 07/07/11 04:56, pa...@laposte.net wrote: Hello, I got two different forms of AUTHORITY SECTION from the dig, for example, $ dig mydots.net @ns7.dnsbed.com ; DiG 9.4.2-P2.1 mydots.net @ns7.dnsbed.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status:

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-07 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 7/7/2011 1:50 AM, Torinthiel wrote: On 07/07/11 04:56, pa...@laposte.net wrote: Hello, I got two different forms of AUTHORITY SECTION from the dig, for example, $ dig mydots.net @ns7.dnsbed.com ; DiG 9.4.2-P2.1 mydots.net @ns7.dnsbed.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;;

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-07-07 Thread Feng He
2011/7/8 Kevin Darcy k...@chrysler.com: I think it's worth emphasizing that in the first case, the contents of the Authority Section were *mandatory* (see RFC 2308, Negative Caching), whereas in the second case the authoritative nameserver was *optionally* providing NS records in the

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-03-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message AANLkTi=9B07Q=flysn6s-0scossneuxms0qgy9h+o...@mail.gmail.com, terr y writes: Hello, When I delegate a subdomain in a zone example.com, the config in named.conf is like: test.example.com. 3600 IN NS ns1.another.com. test.example.com. 3600 IN NS ns2.another.com. Then I

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-03-04 Thread terry
2011/3/4 Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org: In message AANLkTi=9B07Q=flysn6s-0scossneuxms0qgy9h+o...@mail.gmail.com, terr y writes: Hello, When I delegate a subdomain in a zone example.com, the config in named.conf is like: test.example.com.  3600  IN NS  ns1.another.com. test.example.com.  

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-03-04 Thread Torinthiel
 Dnia 2011-03-04 23:07 terry napisał(a): Look at RA and RD.  If the server recurses, you will get a answer. If the server does not recurse, you will get a referral.  Then there are the really old broken servers which get this wrong. Hi Mark, Please see this for details: $ dig nsbeta.info

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-03-04 Thread terry
But in this case, you're asking the authotrative server. Authorative server answers in answer section, as it knows the answer. Authorative section is for 'I don't know, ask ...' The rule above goes for servers which are not authorative for a given zone. Torinthiel

Re: about AUTHORITY SECTION

2011-03-04 Thread terry
2011/3/5 Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org: So why does ns33.domaincontrol.com answer with ANSWER SECTION rather than AUTHORITY SECTION? If you ask with rd=0 (+norec), which is what nameservers do, you get the referral.  Presumably ns33.domaincontrol.com is running BIND 8 which didn't fully comply