FW: subdomains without parents

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Albert.Jans at mail.ing.nl writes:

>Where does it say in the RFC's that it is allowed to do so?

It probably doesn't.  But consider that you can put a zone on a server,
and usually do put it on, before you tell the parent to delegate it.
Many people check that the server is running properly before deletating,
thus server must be able to answer queries.

As long as the queries are sent to your nameserver it will answer them.
It would be very inconvenient for this not to be true.

-- glen



>From:   Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com>[:]
>In article <0017A2D4.C21023 at mail.ing.nl>,  <Albert.Jans at mail.ing.nl> wrote:
>>Install a name server, which is authoritative for several delegated domains and
>>has a cache file pointing towards the (internal) root server, that will become
>>authoritative for a domain which is not delegated or known by the (internal)
>>root server or by one of the name servers in between.

>Sure.  It won't receive queries from hosts that use the root server as
>their starting point, but it will receive queries from hosts that point to
>it directly.