Re: Authoritative PDNS gives back non-authoritative Answers for records

Jan-Piet Mens via Pdns-users <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:43:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.powerdns.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>I found some internet stuff where someone claims that the AA flag is even
>not set  if the answer comes from a cache in some constellations (bind
>cache).

It is correct that AA is *not* set when the response comes from a recursive's
cache: the cache is *not* authoritative -- only an authoritative server is, 
well, authoritative.

And an authoritative server has no cache to speak of.

	-JP