On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:24:01AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> They tell me it's not necessary to do it the way I've been doing it,
> that bind will always search for the specific domain first in the conf
> file and if it finds a reference for it, it will use that zone file.
> 
> Are they right?  Is the behavior documented and likely to continue in
> future releases?  Is it "reasonable" for them to make the presumption?
No, they're not correct.

If the domain and subdomain are hosted on exactly the same set of
machines, then it will work because all the machines which serve up
authoritative answers will know about the NS records for the subdomain
(they learned them from the subdomain's zone file.)

If you seperate the two zones, however, the lack of delegation will
cause the subdomain to not be found.  You can do some creative
secondarying to make it keep working in the face of such a seperation,
but it would still be broken.

-- 
Ed Schmollinger - schmolli@frozencrow.org

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