simple: how to add hosts for higher domain ?

[Ladislav Vobr]

Uwe Dippel wrote:
> I may be slow, but I've been playing for several days with this problem:
> 
> When I put
> 
> zone "uniten.edu.my" in named.conf, I can - correctly - add 
> helper.uniten.edu.my to the file ../master/uni.sec; A, MX and everything.
> And it will even resolve properly.
> But this is outright wrong, since my bind is no SOA for uniten.edu.my; 
> and messes up a few things.
> 
> But when I (correctly) put
> zone "dns2.uniten.edu.my" in named.conf, all records in 
> ../master/uni.sec will show up as .....dns2.uniten.edu.my; including 
> that helper; which will - wrongly - make it as helper.dns2.uniten.edu.my.
> 
> Now I'm asking for a hint, how to bring both together; how could a 
> machine contain a name for another box having the same hierarchy as the 
> bind machine ?
> How can I make dns2.uniten.edu.my resolve helper.uniten.edu.my properly ?

You will have to talk to the one who is the authority for uniten.edu.my 
to put helper A record there. Your dns2 box can be slave for this zone, 
   or it can be just a caching server, it's up to your design.

Ladislav