subdomains without a parent?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Sun May 14 03:22:48 UTC 2000


In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.10005132133170.7381-100000 at nic.com>,
Dave Wreski  <dave at nic.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all.  I'm using 8.2.2p5 and have nameserver ns.a.domain.com and
>ns.b.domain.com.  I'd like to be able to resolve hosts from one domain in
>another and vice-versa.  Can this be done without creating a nameserver at
>ns.domain.com as a parent and delegating down to the ns.a.domain.com and
>ns.b.domain.com servers?

You can make the two servers slaves for the other's zone, or you can
configure them as forwarding zones.  E.g. on ns.a.domain.com, configure:

zone "b.domain.com" {
  type forward;
  forwarders { <address of ns.b.domain.com>; };
};

and vice versa.

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