> It's because a few load balancer vendors don't read freely available 
> specifications but instead appear to reverse engineer the protocol and get it 
> wrong.

> BIND 9.7.0 fixed a long standing of accepting glue promoted to answer by 
> parent nameservers.  Once we did that there was no need to accept none "aa" 
> answers from servers that have been listed as being authoritative for the 
> zone.  This allowed the resolver to ignore broken authoritative servers.

> This got relaxed in later release of BIND 9.7.

It's fairly easy for me to deploy a VM and build a particular version of bind. 
Below is your query run on 9.7.0-P1 and 9.7.4-P1. It fails on the former and 
succeeds on the latter, as suggested by Mark Andrews above. Are you in a 
position to upgrade bind? Jeff.


; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> @localhost winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 28201
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. IN A

;; Query time: 1744 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb  9 19:36:51 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 57


; <<>> DiG 9.7.4-P1 <<>> @localhost winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47557
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 10 IN A 131.107.97.31

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS     dns11.one.microsoft.com.
partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS     dns12.one.microsoft.com.
partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS     dns10.one.microsoft.com.
partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS     dns13.one.microsoft.com.

;; Query time: 668 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb  9 19:15:58 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 157

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