[dns-operations] Authoritative answer with NSCOUNT=0

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Anand Buddhdev<anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> Yesterday I observed DNS responses which have the AA bit set, but the
> authority section is empty:

PowerDNS does this. The authority section is completely optional for
non-delegating answers, so I've not felt the need to fill it out over
the past 10 years. Every few years someone notices, but it doesn't
matter.

No one (no program, at least) reads that section either.

> Additionally, a query for the name servers for this zone returns glue in
> the answer section instead of the additional section, while the
> authority section is still empty:

That isn't us.

   Bert