reverse lookups are shown as AUTHORITATIVE on cache servers..!!!

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Subject:	reverse lookups are shown as AUTHORITATIVE on cache servers..!!!
Group:	Bind-users
From:	blrmaani
Date:	28 Jul 2006

I have a cache-only server [ DNSHOST2 in the picture below ]

DNSHOST1 ( authoritative DNS server for zone myzone1.com )
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DNSHOST2 ( cache only DNS server )
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CLIENTHOST

I executed nslookup on CLIENTHOST to lookup names and ip-addresses on
DNSHOST2.
The nslookup was executed in debug mode.

The replies for names shows as non-authoritative whereas replies for IP

address shows as authoritative. I was under the impression that all
cached
replies are always non-authoritative.

Please help me to understand this..

thanks in advance
regards
Blr