odd reverse delegation problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9pldig$pbh at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Thomas R. Wike <twike at unix01.voicenet.com> wrote:
>The NS record for the /8 points to ARIN's servers.
>ARIN's servers show no NS records for the /16.
>ARIN's servers show the NS records for the /24 point to ns.<oldISP>.com
>ns.<oldISP>.com shows the NS records for the /24 pointing to my DNS
>servers.
>
>So I believe the solution would be to ask ARIN to change the NS records
>for the /24 to point to my DNS servers instead of ns.<oldISP>.com.

Correct.  You can't do "sideways" delegation.

The other solution would be to have the old ISP configure their servers as
slaves to yours.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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