No, BIND 8 was broken this was also. This was fixed in BIND 9. As for non-BIND name servers, anything goes.
Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On 1/29/11, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <mailman.1566.1296284011.555.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > p...@mail.nsbeta.info 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. > > -- > Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu > Arlington, MA > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
