On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:37 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

> >Good point, I was only thinking of recursive answers, and I don't think I
> see SOAs there all the time. We can add
> >that NODATA responses for authoritative responses include the SOA.
>
> A very short survey reveals that unbound and 8.8.8.8 return SOA, bind
> doesn't.  So it's not all the time, but it's pretty common.
>
> R's,
> John
>

Hmm, my quick test indicates that BIND (at least BIND 9.10.x) does return
SOA (acting as a resolver).
Not only common, but also helpful - additonal downstream resolvers and
caching stubs can use this info to cache non-existence.

Shumon.
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