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sblantipodi



Joined: 13 May 2009
Posts: 450
Location: Italy
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:47 pm    Post subject: DNS not authoritative.  
Hi,
when I whois my domain name the lookup tell me that
my DNS are not authoritative...

It seems that there is no error on my linode dns manager.
Why I got this error?

Thanks!
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jsr



Joined: 09 Dec 2008
Posts: 49
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:06 pm    Post subject:  
The DNS servers that linodes use for lookups are not the same DNS servers that are used to host your domain's DNS. Since they are not the same server, they are not authoritative and are just giving you back their cached information. Unless there is some other problem that you are not mentioning, then this is normal behavior.

If you want authoritative information, you need perform your query against the authoritative server, such as:

Code:
nslookup domain.com ns1.linode.com


or

Code:
dig +trace domain.com
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