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On 07/26/01 at 16:39, andrew wrote:
Re: authoritative?
From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2001
Time: 1:59:53 pm
> I have QDNS 3.5 for MacOS 8/9 running on two servers. One of the servers is
> acting as the slave of the other.
>
> When I check the domain using DIG it appears that both servers are providing
> "authoritative" answers for the domain. A third, off-site dns is reported as
> being "non-authoritative"
Yes, both master and slave servers should answer authoritatively. All that
means is that they are serving the data from their own local copies of the
zone file (the master has a zone file that you set up and maintain, the slave
gets a copy of that file by performing zone transfers from the master), not
from their caches or from querying other name servers to get the information.
If the third, off-site, server is supposed to be a slave server for your zone,
then it should also answer authoritatively. If it's just some 'arbitrary' name
server that you queried for info in the zone, then it is correct to answer as
non-authoritative. If it's supposed to be a slave server and it's answering
non-authoritatively, you need to contact its admin to make sure that it is
correctly configured as a slave for the zone.
Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com
Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com
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