On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
They don't really return it, they hint where the information can
be found. "The number of answers is zero and this is an authoritative
answer, given by $authority". Or do you actually get an answer, not
a hint, when you query for the SOA record somewhere down the zone?
Yes, you do:
No you don't. This is a hint:
| ;; Got answer:
| ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59984
| ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
There are zero SOA records ^^^
| ;; QUESTION SECTION:
| ;www.verisign.net. IN SOA
for www.verisign.net.
You did not get an answer "the soa for www.verisign.net. is:"
| ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
This information is coming from the zone verisign.net. ,
which has the following SOA record:
| verisign.net. 695 IN SOA bay-w1-inf5.verisign.net.
vshostmaster.verisign.com. (
| 2005011301 ; serial
| 10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
| 3600 ; retry (1 hour)
| 604800 ; expire (1 week)
| 3600 ; minimum (1 hour)
| )