[ILUG] nslookup question

From: Bernard Tyers (b_b_t at domain usa.net)
Date: Wed 28 Apr 1999 - 12:45:11 IST

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"Vincent Cunniffe" <vincent at domain beacon.ie> wrote:
>hi all,
>i was doing a dnslookup on a machine here this morning and i got the
>following reply "Non-authoritative answer:"
>any help appreciated..

I believe that this means that the request was responded to by your
local DNS, using cached data, and that it didn't go back to one of
the root (authoritative) servers to find out for certain.

Thanks all for the help..
rgrds,
...bernard..

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