Problem delegating W2K underscore domains

Peartree btarver at idlemind.net
Tue Aug 22 00:34:50 UTC 2000


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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Kevin Darcy wrote:

| 
| Oops, I assumed that your parent and child NS'es were identical, which is not
| a safe assumption. Mark's supposition -- that the child NS'es consist of only
| 1 server -- is almost certainly correct, and this is very unlikely to be a
| parsing bug. Ignore my previous post/suggestion.
| 
| 
| - Kevin
| 
| Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
| 
| > > Our site runs BIND 8.2.2-P5 under Solaris. We are now rolling out
| > > Windows 2000 and have decided to use BIND, rather than the Microsoft DNS
| > > server. To this end I have delegated the following domains - _msdcs,
| > > _sites, _tcp and _udp to two of our BIND servers with the following
| > > entries:
| > >
| > > _msdcs    86400    IN    NS    dns1.mydomain.com.
| > >         86400    IN    NS    dns2.mydomain.com.
| > > _sites    86400    IN    NS    dns1.mydomain.com.
| > >         86400    IN    NS    dns2.mydomain.com.
| > > (etc.)
| > >
| > > In fact, dns1 is the primary DNS for mydomain.com, in addition to
| > > _msdcs.mydomain.com (etc.).
| > >
| > > My problem is that although the underscore domains are working fine, and
| > > dns2 is correctly retrieving the zones from dns1, if I do
| > > "nslookup -type=ns _msdcs.mydomain.com" I only get dns1 returned.
| >
| >         You have show us the parent zone.  What are the contents of the
| >         child zone?  Are both NS records there?  Also unless you are
| >         mydomain.com (a real company), which you are not, stop using their
| >         domain name.  If you have to use a fake domain name use example.com
| >         which is reserved for this purpose or better still use the real
| >         name as then we can do some real online checking.  This way you
| >         can also cut and paste from the zone file and we can potentially
| >         see other errors.
| >
| > >
| > > The interesting thing is that I am doing this already for a number of
| > > other subdomains and BOTH name servers are being returned in a type=NS
| > > query. It's only with these underscore domains that the second
| > > delegation seems to be ignored. It's almost as if it was something to do
| > > with the underscore character (and, yes, I have specified the
| > > appropriate check-names ignore).
| >
| >         It's not related to underscores.
| >
| >         Mark
| > >
| > > I'm sure this is something very simple and that I shall feel very
| > > foolish when someone points out my error :)
| > >
| > > Thanks in advance,
| > >
| > > Mike
| > > --
| > > Mike Zanker, Northampton, UK
| > >
| > > Replace 'abuse' with 'mike' for e-mail reply.
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > --
| > Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
| > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
| > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
| 
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