How to make out which are the authoritative and which are the non-authoritative queries from the logs?

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Issue

  • How to understand from the below logs which are the authoritative and which are the non-authoritative queries :-
  1. From Authoritative Server :-
# tail -3 /var/log/query.log
26-Mar-2015 00:10:38.466 client <IP1>#4473: query: *.istole.it IN A +
26-Mar-2015 00:10:38.466 client <<IP2>#3012: query: android.clients.google.com IN A +
26-Mar-2015 00:10:38.467 client <<IP3>#49085: query: mtalk.google.com IN A +
  1. From the Resolver server :-
tail -3 /sharing/resolver1/query.log
26-Mar-2015 00:33:05.003 client <IP>#22168: view resolver: query: torch IN A +E
26-Mar-2015 00:33:05.004 client <IP>#11848: view resolver: query: epupdate.7176.com IN A +E
26-Mar-2015 00:33:05.004 client <IP>#41834: view resolver: query: reg2t.sandai.net IN A +E

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • DNS

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