Help with delegation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <d8dhkb$2ltf$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Michael Barber" <mikeb at comcity.com> wrote:

> Also, all along I have been concerned with the fact that they say they
> (hostingplatform.com) do not need to run NS records for the zones under
> *.preview.web-hosters.com.  And, this ends in a loop of nowhere when you NS
> query it.

NS records aren't needed for the *.preview.web-hosters.com names, since 
they aren't delegated subzones.  They're just names in the 
preview.web-hosters.com zone.  They have A records, which should be all 
they need.

> 
> 
> DNS Lookup: 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com NS record
> Generated by www.DNSstuff.com
> How I am searching:
> Searching for 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com NS record at
> i.root-servers.net [192.36.148.17]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> [took 7 ms]
> Searching for 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com NS record at
> D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.31.80.30]: Got referral to ns.comcity.com. [took
> 139 ms]
> Searching for 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com NS record at ns.comcity.com.
> [207.168.174.130]: Got referral to ns3.hostingplatform.com. [took 79 ms]
> Searching for 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com NS record at
> ns3.hostingplatform.com. [205.178.132.60]: Reports that no NS records exist.
> [took 14 ms] 
> 
> Answer:
> No NS records exist for 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com. [Neg TTL=86400
> seconds]
> 
> Details:
> ns3.hostingplatform.com. (an authoritative nameserver for
> preview.web-hosters.com.) says that there are no NS records for
> 0000025.preview.web-hosters.com.
> The E-mail address in charge of the preview.web-hosters.com. zone is:
> staff at hostingplatform.com.preview.web-hosters.com.

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