[dns-operations] about answer status

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:49:34AM +0100,
 Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote 
 a message of 21 lines which said:

> FWIW there's an inconsistency between the two authoritative name
> servers for game.yy.com. dwdns1.nsbeta.info returns NOHOST while
> dwdns2.nsbeta.info returns NXDOMAIN for lookups of
> defensor.game.yy.com QTYPEs.

This is not what I see:

% dig @dwdns2.nsbeta.info  A defensor.game.yy.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9-Debian <<>> @dwdns2.nsbeta.info A defensor.game.yy.com
; (3 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20041
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;defensor.game.yy.com.  IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
game.yy.com.            600 IN SOA dwdns1.nsbeta.info. support.dnsbed.com. (
                                150911     ; serial
                                10800      ; refresh (3 hours)
                                3600       ; retry (1 hour)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                600        ; minimum (10 minutes)
                                )

;; Query time: 311 msec
;; SERVER: 182.118.1.100#53(182.118.1.100)
;; WHEN: Mon Jun 08 11:27:09 CEST 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 118