Domain Name Gluing

[Cinense, Mark]

Barry,
	Sorry my question was not clear enough.  If you will notice that
hoser.parent, and hoser.screwed.parent are 2 different sub domains of the
parent domain.  Since it is an AD network, I am not sure that the caching
nameserver in this instance would work.  Like I said, our MS admins would
like to avoid rebuild the AD tree with the new name since it would involve
250 DT visits.

Mark

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net] 
Sent:	Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:26 PM
To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject:	Re: Domain Name Gluing

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.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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