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Why do queries for NSEC3 records fail to return the NSEC3 record?

April 26, 2017fail queries record records Return

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Why do queries for NSEC3 records fail to return the NSEC3 record?

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NSEC3 records are strictly meta data and can only be returned in the authority section. This is done so that signing the zone using NSEC3 records does not bring names into existance that do not exist in the unsigned version of the zone.