<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:35 AM Matthew Richardson <<a href="mailto:matthew-l@itconsult.co.uk">matthew-l@itconsult.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am observing responses from particular authoratitive servers for<br>
non-existant domains, which is puzzling me. I thought I understood this<br>
topic, but am now having doubts...<br>
<br>
Consider two (real) non-existant records (which are not empty non-terminals<br>
- there is nothing below them):-<br>
<br>
<a href="http://doesnotexist.mtgmon.itconsult.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">doesnotexist.mtgmon.itconsult.net</a><br>
<a href="http://doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net</a><br>
<br>
where <a href="http://mtgmon.itconsult.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mtgmon.itconsult.net</a> & <a href="http://monitor.itconsult.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">monitor.itconsult.net</a> are delegated to<br>
different authoratitives.<br>
<br>
Querying each against the authoratitives returns NOERROR with "ANSWER: 0"<br>
for the first one and NXDOMAIN for the second, behaviour which is<br>
consistent across all the authoratitives:-<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The second one, <a href="http://doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net">doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net</a>., does not appear to be delegated from its parent. That's why you're getting NXDOMAIN - that response is coming from the parent zone: <a href="http://itconsult.net">itconsult.net</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>>> Query: <a href="http://doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net">doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net</a>. A IN at zone <a href="http://itconsult.net">itconsult.net</a>.<br>>> Send to zone <a href="http://itconsult.net">itconsult.net</a>. at address 193.201.42.1<br>ERROR: NXDOMAIN: <a href="http://doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net">doesnotexist.monitor.itconsult.net</a>. not found<br></div><div><br></div><div>Shumon.</div><div><br></div></div></div>