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AFAIK, there is no such thing as an "authoritative resolver". Authoritative DNS servers are commonly called "name servers". Recursive resolvers, i.e., caches, are never authoritative. Some might pretend to be, I have found examples of this easily in the past, highlighting the potential for abuse by operators of third party DNS resolvers.


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