[53855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kandra_Nyg=E5rds?=)
Fri Nov 29 17:08:35 2002
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kandra_Nyg=E5rds?= <kandra@foxette.net>
To: "Damian Gerow" <damian@sentex.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:41:15 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Damian Gerow" <damian@sentex.net>
> Could I ask people with domains ending in .ca to do lookups of type NS
> for that/those domain(s) against all the ca. nameservers, and let me
> know if you see anything weird? Specifically, can you look at the
> ANCOUNT response?
>
> Just looking to see if my DNS understanding is way off whack, or if
> there really /is/ something funky going on with a couple of the servers.
I don't see anything wrong in particular, apart from a few of the servers
responding with glue data in the answer-section, instead of the authority
section. I assume this is what you're refering to. This is correct behavior,
glue data is not an authorative answer and should therefore not be in the
answer section. This was a misimplementation in BIND prior to version 9.
Best regards,
Kandra Nygårds
