RE: [cobalt-users] NSLOOKUP Produces Non-Authoritative Answer to queries

["Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > We have Cobalt Raq3i's. When someone does an NSLOOKUP on our
> DNS Server --
> > ns1.hardynet.net -- the system always responds with a non-authoritative
> > answer for domains that are hosted on our machine.  I am not sure I
> > understand why.  For example:
> > www.hardynet.net is hosted on that machine.
> >

I can well imagine a variety of things might cause this problem; and indeed,
I experienced it myself. In my case, non-authoritative answer was the result
of bad reverse lookup configuration, though not my isp's fault - it had been
entirely my own misunderstanding. I had created a reverse lookup for every
domain hosted on a single ip and so my name server misreported it's own
identity (not the looked up domain), thus the "non-authoritative" answer
because nslookup did not recognize the name of the responding "name server"

Clark