FW: zone delegation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7DFA4636C7A7D211B52400805FE6A1C1031B61CE at NIESFM1>,
ANG Choon Gei (CSC) <cgang at nie.edu.sg> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> What if I do subzone delegation? Is my below configuration correct?
>
>The registered primary DNS (166.22.1.1) server is running BIND v4 with this
>named.boot.
>
>directory	/etc/name
>
>primary		abc.com			abc.db
>primary		def.com				def.db
>secondary	test.abc.com	166.22.2.1	xyz.db

I think you'll find it less confusing if you follow a consistent file
naming scheme and call this test.abc.db or test.db.

>primary 	0.0.127.in-addr.arpa		lookback.db
>cache		.				cache.db
>
>
>For the secondary(or slave) server (166.22.2.1) is running BIND v8 and it is
>configured as follows :
>
>options {
>	directory	"/etc/name"
>	};
>	
>zone "." in {
>	type hint;
>	file "cache.db"
>	}
>
>zone "xyz.db" in {
>	type slave;
>	file "xyz.db";
>	masters {166.22.1.1;};
>	};
>

There's no xyz.db in the 166.22.1.1 configuration above, so how can you
reference it as the master for the domain?  Did you mean for this to be:

zone "abc.com"?

>zone "test.abc.com" in {
>	type masters;
>	file "test.abc.db";
>};

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