Hi there, I've extended twisted.names to support tinydns data files. names isn't responding with authoritive answers the way I was expecting it to though. names responds that it is authoritive for my name server, but not for anything else. This is the tinydns file I'm using: ----------------------------------- .cablelounge.com::ns1.cablelounge.com:259200 =cablelounge.com:69.10.144.170:86400 +www.cablelounge.com:69.10.144.170:86400 +miles.cablelounge.com:69.10.144.170:86400 +twisted.cablelounge.com:203.113.212.32:900 +ns1.cablelounge.com:69.10.144.170:86400 @cablelounge.com:69.10.144.170:mail.cablelounge.com:0:86400 ------------------------------------ names says that it is authoritive for ns1.cablelounge.com, but nothing else. tinydns responds as authoritive for all of the above names: #> dig @cablelounge.com cablelounge.com I ran a standard pyzone file through names and got the same result .. so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong .. . Here's what I did with the pyzone file: zones: ----------------------- zone = [ SOA( "fred.com", mname = "ns1.fred.com", rname = "hostmaster.fred.com", serial = 2004021501, refresh = "1H", retry = "1H", expire = "1H", minimum = "1H" ), A("fred.com", "192.168.10.10"), NS("ns1.fred.com", "fred.com"), A("ns1.fred.com", "192.168.10.10"), ] ------------------------ #> mktap dns --pyzone=zones --port 5053 #> twistd -f dns #> dig -p 5053 @cablelounge.com fred.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -p 5053 @cablelounge.com fred.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48786 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;fred.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: fred.com. 3600 IN A 192.168.10.10 ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 69.10.144.170#5053(cablelounge.com) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 15 10:01:29 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42 #> dig -p 5053 @cablelounge.com ns1.fred.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> -p 5053 @cablelounge.com ns1.fred.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63056 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ns1.fred.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: ns1.fred.com. 3600 IN A 192.168.10.10 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ns1.fred.com. 3600 IN NS fred.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: fred.com. 3600 IN A 192.168.10.10 ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 69.10.144.170#5053(cablelounge.com) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 15 10:02:24 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 76 twisted.names is showing as authoritive for ns1.fred.com, but not fred.com. Has anyone had a similiar experience with twisted.names? What am I overlooking? regards, Andy.