On Sep 11, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Brian Cuttler <br...@wadsworth.org> wrote:
> We have remapped some of our DNS clients to point to another
> DNS resolver, one that we do not control, but that has "forwarder"
> records in place to point our domain's address resolution requests
> back to an authoritative server in our domain.
> 
> Dig is showing authoritative answer when I query my domain's server
> for an address that I own.
> 
> Dig is NOT showing authoritative when I query the other domain's server.
> 
> I'd have thought that the forwarded request, coming from my server,
> would have resulted in an authoritative reply.

When you query a non-authoritative server, such as one configured to forward 
the query to another server, the result is supposed to be marked 
non-authoritative. That's the point of the 'aa' flag. Not all name servers 
behave this way, but they are supposed to. BIND 9 behaves correctly.

Regards,
Chris Buxton
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