Routing mail to a sub-domain

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Nov 7 19:07:50 UTC 2002


Iain Firkins wrote:

> > Ah, that's a little clearer. There would appear to be a discrepancy
> between
> > your DNS and the DNS which is being served by the delegated subdomain
> > nameservers. I suspect that there may be something wrong with your
> delegation.
> > Do you by any chance have an MX record (or for that matter, any other
> record
> > type besides NS) in the "domain" zone file for sub.domain or anything
> under
> > sub.domain? Other than glue A records, that would be technically illegal.
> > Speaking of glue A records, since the names of the nameservers for
> sub.domain
> > are in the sub.domain subdomain, do you have the necessary glue records in
> the
> > "domain" zone file?
>
> In the zonefile on the internal DNS for 'domain' the only references to
> sub.domain are the NS records. There are A records for each of the DNS
> servers in sub.domain in the zonefile, and nothing else (no MX etc.)

Are you sure your earlier query went to the box which is defined as master for
the zone? Look at your resolver configuration; turn on query logging if
necessary. I can't imagine why your master would return wrong information if
the zone loaded properly...


- Kevin





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