Why is the DNS on my Windows Server 2012 not authoritative according to dig?
- by tetranz
This is me trying to understand something rather than a real problem.
I have a new Windows Server 2012 Essentials. That server provides, DNS, DHCP etc. Lets say my Windows domain is my-windows-domain and the server's host name is my-server. The domain's DNS zone is my-windows-domain.local. The server's IP address is 192.168.1.5.
This is what I get if I go to a Linux machine on our LAN and do
dig my-server.my-windows-domain @192.168.1.5
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> my-server.my-windows-domain.local @192.168.1.5
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6003
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;my-server.my-windows-domain.local. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
my-server.my-windows-domain.local. 3600 IN A 192.168.1.5
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.5#53(192.168.1.5)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 10:44:28 EDT 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 73
I think that all looks okay except why is it AUTHORITY: 0 ?
Shouldn't this be the authority for the my-windows-server.local domain?
dig soa my-windows-domain.local comes back with:
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> soa my-windows-domain.local
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29822
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;my-windows-domain.local. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
my-windows-domain.local. 3600 IN SOA my-server.my-windows-domain.local. hostmaster.my-windows-domain.local. 101 900 600 86400 3600
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
my-server.my-windows-domain.local. 3600 IN A 192.168.1.5
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.5#53(192.168.1.5)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 10:51:17 EDT 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 120
I know about the recommendation to not use .local but there was no other option when I installed the server, just following the wizards.
