Help... DNS Structuring Question!

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <DNEELHLOHOCPGDLEIHJOCEJICCAA.sorvih1 at isdn.net.il>,
> Amir  <sorvih1 at isdn.net.il> wrote:
> >ok , so my question is simple :
> >how do you force the bind to know other NS's other than root automatically ?
> >without first looking them up ?
>
> If it's authoritative for a.com, just put the NS records for the subdomains
> into that zone file.
>
> If not, I don't think there's a way.  You can configure it as a slave
> server for the domains, so that it won't need to consult the other NS's at
> all when responding to queries in those domains.
>
> Someone else suggested stub zones, but I think that only works on a server
> that's authoritative for the parent domain.  It's just a way of getting the
> delegation NS records into the parent zone automatically.

Stub works for any zones, assuming that the proper connectivity is in place and
that the authoritative servers allow the stub to query for SOA and NS records. You
can build a whole DNS infrastructure based on stubs. The ANX (Automotive Network
eXchange), for instance.


- Kevin