several subzones in one db file

[Barry Margolin]

In article <boonl6$vei$1 at sf1.isc.org>, James Wilde <npa at glocalnet.com> wrote:
>I feel fairly comfortable with my experience with bind and dns as a general
>rule, but I have a little problem I'm not sure about involving subzones.
>
>We are taking over a number of subzones from another ISP without taking over
>the parent zone.  Let's call the parent zone isp.com.  We are taking over
>post.isp.com, private.isp.com, xyz.isp.com and a bunch of others, but the
>other company retains isp.com.  They are going to delegate the subzones to
>us.  In fact, the subzones all point to the same mail server.
>
>What I want to know is whether I can set up a db file isp.com on my server
>for the delegated zones, and include lines like:
>
>$ORIGIN post.isp.com
>@        IN    A    123.123.123.123
>$ORIGIN private.isp.com
>@        IN    A    123.123.123.123
>...
>
>or whether I have to have separate db files for each subzone.

You need separate db files.  Just like you do for company1.com and
company2.com -- they're both just subzones of COM, aren't they?

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