Non-delegated subdomain?
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mon Jan 31 23:41:21 UTC 2000
While Barry didn't say this you should check your logs and fix
the errors reported.
Mark
> In article <874rab$3gd$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, <gmcafee at my-deja.com> wrote:
> >Is it normal to get a non-authoritative answer to a query for a RR that
> >belongs to a non-delegated subdomain? For example, if I have something
> >like:
>
> No, it's not normal. A server is authoritative for zones, not domains.
> Names in non-delegated subdomains are part of the same zone. The server
> should be authoritative for the whole zone or none of it.
>
> >fred.com SOA ...
> >
> > NS barney.fred.com.
> >barney A x.x.x.x
> >
> >_ftp.tcp SRV 1 1 21 wilma.fred.com.
> >wilma A y.y.y.y
> >
> >and I query the SRV record with nslookup, I get a non-authoritative
> >answer back. Thus I'm assuming that the name server thinks the SRV
> >actually belongs to the 'tcp.fred.com' domain and views the SRV RR as
> >part of a non-delegated subdomain of 'fred.com'.
> >
> >1) Are my assumptions accurate?
> >2) If so, how do I get an authoritative answer for the SRV?
> >3) If I'm all washed up, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
>
> I don't know. Are you sure it's returning authoritative answers for
> barney.fred.com and wilma.fred.com?
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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>
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