Dynamic DNS and Slave Servers

Kevin Darcy kcd at chrysler.com
Thu Jun 18 18:32:35 UTC 2009


All subzones are subdomains.

But a subdomain isn't a subzone unless it's delegated from the parent zone.

Also, subzones have "zone" definitions in named.conf. Undelegated 
subdomains do not.

- Kevin

Gregory Hicks wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:41:04 -0400
>> From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com>
>>
>> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:50:49AM -0700, Chris Buxton wrote:
>>>       
> [...]
>   
>>> For which reason, of course, dynamic data should always be in a
>>> separate subdomain from static data, which may someday need to be
>>> updated.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Surely you mean sub*zone* (?)
>>     
>
> Kevin:
>
> I'll bite!  What is the difference between a sub*domain* and a
> sub*zone*?
>
> I don't see how you could have the one w/o the other.  But that could
> be because I'm feeling especially slow today.
>
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
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