delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

[Martin F. Krafft]

also sprach Kevin Darcy (on Mon, 23 Jul 2001 05:01:07PM -0400):
> Well, according to the dump, pns.dtag.de (address 194.25.0.125) is the one
> disclaiming all knowledge of mail.subdomain.madduck.net. You haven't
> mentioned forwarding at all, but since pns.dtag.de has nothing to do with
> the madduck.net domain, I can only conlude that you're using pns.dtag.de as
> a forwarder. Is that correct? If you're forwarding, then you'll have to use
> the "forwarders { }" syntax in the zone definition of madduck.net if you
> want to cancel forwarding for its subzones.

well, first it's not called subdomain.madduck.net :)
and then, currently, this is a merely internal test. none of my
forwarders, of which pns.dtag.de is one, knows about
subdomain.madduck.net. note the 192.168.14.0/24 subnet choice.

all this is within my private lan. i have three dns servers, two only
for the purpose of testing. they all run bind 9.1.3.

  192.168.14.1 is the main dns server, which does recursion - all my
    lan resolves through it. it is authoritative for home.madduck.net
    on 192.168.14.0/24 only, and forwards everything else to some
    eight dtag.de servers. it has an NS record for
    subdomain.home.madduck.net pointing to ns{1,2}.subdomain... and
    contains A (glue) records for ns{1,2}.subdomain... to
    192.168.14.1{3,4}.
    
  192.168.14.1{3,4} are two test servers authoritative for
    subdomain.home.madduck.net.

however, while queries to e.g. mail.subdomain.home.madduck.net against
192.168.14.1{3,4} resolve just fine to 192.168.14.7, the same queries
fail with NXDOMAIN when placed against 192.168.14.1. that's my problem
and even though i did everything you have to do, nothing works.

thanks for your time!

martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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