about resolving on a child zone

[Chris Buxton]

On Apr 13, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Tech W. wrote:
> --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com>
>> Subject: Re: about resolving on a child zone
>
>>
>> In this case, the answer is that your main zone
>> (example.com) will have an error, because it will have an A
>> record below the "bottom" of the zone that is not a glue
>> record. In other words, it will recognize that
>> www.my.example.com belongs to my.example.com, not to
>> example.com.
>>
>
> Thanks Chris for the good info.
> How about this case below?
>
> my.example.com.  IN  NS  ns.my.example.com.
> ns.my.example.com.  IN  A  11.22.33.44
>
>
> Under this case, the A record for ns.my.example.com. will be defined  
> in main DNS or "ns.my.example.com" or both?

Both. This is a glue record, which is a special case.

Chris Buxton
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