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Answer by TheLogicGuy for DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the...

From Wireshark Lab: DNS v6.01: However, nslookup also indicates that the answer is “non-authoritative,” meaning that this answer came from the cache of some server rather than from an authoritative MIT...

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Answer by LinuxBabe for DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the...

Non-authoritative answer simply means the answer is not fetched from the authoritative DNS server for the queried domain name. First you have to understand how DNS system works. DNS system can be...

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Answer by cjc for DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the non-authoritative...

The answer you've received is essentially a cached or forwarded response from your local DNS server. Basically, a non-authoritative name server is one that does not contain the records for the zone...

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Answer by HopelessN00b for DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the...

Basically, it's what the name says it is. An authoritative answer comes from a nameserver that is considered authoritative for the domain which it's returning a record for (one of the nameservers in...

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DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the non-authoritative answer?

For some domains nslookup gives me a Non-authoritative answer section. What does this mean? Got answer: HEADER: opcode = QUERY, id = 3, rcode = NXDOMAIN header flags: response, want recursion,...

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Answer by Apoorv Pathak for DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the...

Non-authoritative name servers do not contain original source files of domain’s zone. They have a cache file for the domains that is constructed from all the DNS lookups done previously. If a DNS...

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