Testing secondary is confusing me

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Hello, trying to make sure a secondary is doing as it is supposed to, I use
this:

dig @ns1.pbi.net micromat.com SOA +norecurse
Pertinant line I care about is:
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

I think I am just looking for the aa part, that tells me that the secondary
is slaving me.

Now, in a past thread:
<http://archive.digitalpoint.com/FMPro?-db=listarch.fp5&-lay=web&-RecID=1264
3149&-Format=/QDNS/archdetail.html&-Find>
I was told that:
dig soa +norecurse @dns2.intermag.com newgeo.com | grep flags:.*\ aa\
*notice the space at the end, looks for "flags:" and " aa " on the same line
in the result.

So if there is a result, I am good, if not, I am bad.

Problem is, I think this slave is doing its job now, however, the grep is
reporting falsely and giving me no response. Any idea what I am doing wrong
here, or is it just that dig returns different, or perhaps pbi.net is
returning different data and I need to alter my grep?

I really don't know exactly what I am looking for here, one zone I know for
sure is being slaved gives me back:
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

The other, the one in question gives me back:
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

So to grep and look for <space>aa<space> seems correct, in that the first
one would return something, so I know it is ok, the second fails the grep
and tells me I need to talk to ns1.pbi.net.

And to add into this mix
<http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=micromat.com>
Tells me that all is OK in regards to this... Yes, I know, I am still trying
to learn how to fix the RDNS troubles, but the rest looks good compared to
how it looked a few days ago.

If it turns out I do in fact need to tell pbi.net to slave this domain,
anyone know a email address or a phone number of who to talk to so that this
can happen?
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