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nslookup non-authoritative answer

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by rickpawlyk 1 view

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What does it mean when you recieve correct Nslookup results but it says "non-authoritative answer"?

I'm guesing I recieved the results from a standard secondary DNS and not the primary?

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by timwalsh

You are essentially correct. This means that you received the result from a DNS server that had cached the result from a previous lookup that it had done as opposed to receiving the result form the DNS server that is "authoritative" for that particular DNS zone (or that zone's "primary").

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