In article <[email protected]>,
 [email protected] wrote:

> The book "Pro DNS and BIND" says: 
> 
> If the caching server obtains its data directly from an authoritative DNS, 
> then it too will respond as authoritative. Ohterwise, if the data is 
> supplied from its cache, the response is nonauthoritative. 
> 
> So this means even for a cache only server it can answer with authoritative 
> response? I have been thinking the cache only server shouldn't do this. 

BIND 4 worked this way, but I think it was changed in BIND 8.

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Barry Margolin, [email protected]
Arlington, MA
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