Glue Records for a Subdomain

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Mar 27 21:37:50 UTC 2002


Martin,
             I hope you're also clear on the fact that these two sets of
delegation records would go into two *different* zonefiles (unless you're
just adding them to an internal root zone).


- Kevin

Michael Kjorling wrote:

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> NS records take names, not IP addresses. Thus glue records are
> required if the name is in the (a) delegated domain.
>
> Michael Kj=F6rling
>
> On Mar 27 2002 10:29 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> >       A department on our campus is going to run its own dns
> > and serve a subdomain of ours.  I put two  NS  records in to our
> > configuration of the format
> >
> > theirsub.domain   IN   NS   IP.number.their.dns
> > theirsub.domain   IN   NS   IP.number.their.dns2
> > xx.78.139.IN-ADDR.ARPA   IN   NS   IP.number.their.dns
> > xx.78.139.IN-ADDR.ARPA   IN   NS   IP.number.their.dns2
> >
> >       That way, when somebody looks up
> > somehost.theirdomain.okstate.edu or its IP address, our master
> > dns will consult their dns.
> >
> >       Have I missed anything?  The test we are going to run is
> > now waiting for the other department to turn on their DNS's.  I
> > just want to be sure we are ready when they do.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
>
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