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<p dir="auto">Hi.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've had my attention drawn to some surprising behaviour by<br>
certain authoritative name servers. I'm not sure how best<br>
to categorize this behaviour, and wonder how some of you<br>
might view it.</p>
<p dir="auto">What's surprising is that an authoritative name server<br>
shows both a decremented TTL value (as if it were answering<br>
from cache) and the AA flag.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm not sure which of the following labels is the best fit<br>
for this behaviour:</p>
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<li>normal and expected (but so far outside my experience),</li>
<li>strange but harmless,</li>
<li>downright wrong.</li>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks in advance to whomever is minded to reply.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks especially to Mats Dufberg who, diligently<br>
investigating what I had mistakenly guessed was a problem<br>
in zonemaster, took time to identify, and make me aware of,<br>
what was causing occasional trouble reports.</p>
<p dir="auto">Niall</p>
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