[dns-operations] Reporting glue as authoritive data -- Bug!

Paul Vixie paul at vix.com
Fri Jan 25 15:03:54 UTC 2008


> It seems even worse:
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> fqdn.org ANY @tld1.ultradns.net
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
> 
> The software is moving records from the other sections to the answer area.

again, this is BIND8 behaviour, which other servers emulate because it's
what a lot of mindless recursive servers and monitoring systems expect.



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