Re: DNS 101 Q: Will An autorative NS send NS of other NS that are also autorotative for the domain

"Ibrahim, Tarig (T.)" wrote:

> We have a debate here, the question is; if I have a server that is primary
> for a domain, another NS queries that server for a host in that domain, will
> the authorotative NS just send the answer or will it return the answer AND
> other NS records for that domain?

By default, a BIND nameserver will return the NS records for the relevant zone,
if it can (i.e. assuming there are no packet-truncation issues). In modern
versions of BIND 9 this behavior is configurable: see the
"minimal-responses" option.


- Kevin