[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - nslookup question

[Greg Edwards]

fredjame wrote:
> Some times when I do an 'nslookup' I get the phrase "Non-authoritative 
> answer:" as part of the response.  I have not been able to find this in 
> the documentation as yet - does anyone know what it means exactly?  
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.  (The 
> nslookup command was issued from a Unix box, but I believe the box it 
> was looking for is probably MS - if that means anything)
> Regards
> Fred James
> 

Simply means that the answer came from a name server that knows the 
answer, but is not the name server that manages the domain asked about.

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