Delegation issues in bind 9.2.4 on Solaris.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ctm232$1fl9$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Bill Moritz" <ego at djalterego.com> wrote:

> I am having intermittent delegation issues.  I have a split zone dns
> configuration running Bind 9.2.4 on Solaris 8.
> 
> The zone file for domain.com contains ns records for sub.domain.com.
> The authoritative server for sub.domain.com is on the same subnet as my
> dns server.
> 
> The problem is with Bind not following the ns records to query the
> authoritative internal dns server and then forwarding the request to
> the external dns servers for resolution.  The answers that people are
> getting is the correct answer for the external dns.  This subdomain
> handles mail in my company and is causing major issues.
> 
> I tried sniffing the ethernet to see if there was any issue on the
> network but when this problem happens bind is not even querying the
> authoritative server.  All I see is it asking the external servers.
> 
> I am using named -u named as my startup command.  Bind 9.3 core dumps
> on my systems. 
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Do you have glue records for the subdomain servers?

Can you post the named.conf and zone files -- and please don't do this 
"domain.com" crap, give us the real files.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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