Delegation

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:15:12AM -0600, Larry Sheldon wrote:
...
> We have recently started allowing "dynamic" updates and have therefor (of 
> course) had to drastically change the way I maintain the master zone files.
> 
> We have not in the past generally had any need to delegate subdomains and
> so the process was never one that I got comfortable with, but as I recall,
> I edited the master zone file for "creighton.edu" to insert two lines
> that looked like:
> 
> examplesub.creighton.edu. 86400 IN NS esubns.examplesub.creighton.edu.
> esubns.examplesub.creighton.edu. 86400 IN A 147.134.X.Y
> 
> and that seemed to work.  And because me and "vi" were the only ones that
> updated the master zone file, this two lines stayed there until I took them
> out.
> 
> Now in this brave new world--lines like that do in fact seem to make
> the delegation happen, but after a bit, the lines disappear out of the master
> zone file, although the delegation seems to still work.

No change here.  The lines disappear, probably because you don't have
them in the examplesub.creighton.edu domain's zone file on server host
esubns.examplesub.creighton.edu.  This would have been the case with
static or dynamic DNS.

On a guess, purely.

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