interesting delegation question

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Dec 17 01:44:05 UTC 1999


On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 02:47:59PM -0500, Dave North wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> I have a delegation question that is kind of weird.  Basically, I have the
> following:
> 
> 1.in-addr.arpa
>           NS    ns1.com.     MASTER
> 
>            1.1.in-addr.arpa
>                 NS  ns2.com     MASTER
>                 NS  ns1.com    SLAVE
> 
> My question is, in the zone file for 1.in-addr.arpa on ns1, does it need the
> NS record for ns2.com as a delegation seeing as it's a SLAVE for that zone
> as well?  I can see arguments for both ways but I wonder which method BIND
> considers correct (ie. look at the slave file or the delegation).
> 
> thanks
> 
> Dave
> 
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Not weird.  Fairly straightforward.  The parent domain should always
contain all of the child's name servers.  Keep it consistent!

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