Domain Name Gluing

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu May 9 20:25:45 UTC 2002


In article <abeks9$b1g4$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
Cinense, Mark <macinen at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>I was asked this question earlier today.  
>	If I had a domain name hoser.parent.grandparent.org and this is
>already been setup with 2KAD, and the parent domain said that you need to
>change your domain to hoser.screwed.parent.grandparent.org, could the new
>hoser subdomain of the screwed domain point back to
>hoser.parent.grandparent.org domain?  Since I run Unix Bind servers, the MS
>guys wanted to know if I put up a Bind server as the
>hoser.screwed.parent.grandparent.org nameserver, with records that either
>alias, or glue back to the hoser.parent.grandparent.org server when requests
>are made to hoser.screwed.parent.grandparent.org work.  They do knot want to
>have to rebuild the AD where the tree sits on hoser.parent.grandparent.org.

I don't understand your question.  What do you mean by "point back"?  A
subdomain server doesn't normally need any information about the parent
domain in its configuration.

If there are users using your server as their caching nameserver, and they
try to look things up in the parent domain, your BIND server will find that
information by working its way down from the root, just like any other
nameserver.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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