domain and subdomain problem

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	NS records take hostnames not IP addresses.  The logs you are
	seeing are the result of using a IP address where you shouldn't.
	Yes, this will cause operational problems so it need to be fixed.

	Mark

> 
> Hello,
> I have a domain abc.com and sub domain xxx.abc.com
> I have two nameservers for both these domains with a delegation record in
> abc.com's zone file pointing to the xxx.abc.com's name server. and a zone for
> xxx.abc.com in abc.com's /etc/named.conf with a forwarders...
> these two zones are in two different subnets, say 1.1.1.0 and 2.2.2.0
> respectivly.
> 
> whenever I do a nslookup pointing to the nameserver of abc.com and ask a
> resolution for any host in xxx.abc.com domain, It gets resolved properly but 
> I
> get a error in /var/log/messages file as below :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Aug 29 11:03:32 "servername" named[13963]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) 
> on
> 2.2.2.5.abc.com?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> where 2.2.2.5 is the nameserver for the xxx.abc.com which is being pointed to
> by a delegation record in abc.com's zone file.
> 
> what I understand from this is named is not able to find that machine in
> abc.com's domain. which is true because the machine is in xxx.abc.com domain
> and even on seperate subnet.
> 
> is this error ok? can it be just ignored? can there be any problem in this
> configuration?
> 
> TIA
> Prashant
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
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