Help with DNS

[Rob Mortimer]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:59:28 +0300, "Kari Laine"
<kari.laine at dnainternet.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am setting up a testing network and I would need some pointers.
>
>There is actually three networks with four machines each(2 servers win NT
>and two workstations). They are connected with a "backbone network" on which
>I have two Linux machines and a local DNS server which takes care of the
>local machines and does caching for the rest of the addresses.
>
>On those three networks I defined domains domain1.xxx, domain2.yyy and
>domain3.zzz. Now I would need to set up my own root server to take care of
>the delegation of these .xxx , .yyy and .zzz. I set up NT's own DNS server
>in each local domain.
>
>I am able to do those local zone-files for each network but I don't know how
>to define the higher level.
>
>I am thinking that this is set up somehow with NS records but I don't have
>yet the faintest idea how the Zone-files should look.
>
>Any pointers and help highly appreciated.
>
>Best Regards
>Kari
>
>
>
The format should be

mydomain.com

	domain1.mydomain.com
		machine1.domain1.mydomain.com
		machine2.domain1.mydomain.com
		machine3.domain1.mydomain.com
	
	domain2.mydomain.com
	

	domain3.mydomain.com

mydomain.com is the primary name server with SOA for mydomain.com
it can either use zone transfers to 
	domain1.mydomain.com,
	domain2.mydomain.com,
	domain3.mydomain.com
giveing you centralised DNS records that are propogated

OR mydomain.com can dleigate SOA to the sub domains
	domain1.mydomain.com,
	domain2.mydomain.com,
	domain3.mydomain.com
Resulting it the records for each sub domain being held localy (cood
if you are useing DHCP/Dynamic DNS on each sub net/domain.

Regards Robert
>