Problem delegating W2K underscore domains

[Kevin Darcy]

Oops, I assumed that your parent and child NS'es were identical, which is not
a safe assumption. Mark's supposition -- that the child NS'es consist of only
1 server -- is almost certainly correct, and this is very unlikely to be a
parsing bug. Ignore my previous post/suggestion.


- Kevin

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:

> > Our site runs BIND 8.2.2-P5 under Solaris. We are now rolling out
> > Windows 2000 and have decided to use BIND, rather than the Microsoft DNS
> > server. To this end I have delegated the following domains - _msdcs,
> > _sites, _tcp and _udp to two of our BIND servers with the following
> > entries:
> >
> > _msdcs    86400    IN    NS    dns1.mydomain.com.
> >         86400    IN    NS    dns2.mydomain.com.
> > _sites    86400    IN    NS    dns1.mydomain.com.
> >         86400    IN    NS    dns2.mydomain.com.
> > (etc.)
> >
> > In fact, dns1 is the primary DNS for mydomain.com, in addition to
> > _msdcs.mydomain.com (etc.).
> >
> > My problem is that although the underscore domains are working fine, and
> > dns2 is correctly retrieving the zones from dns1, if I do
> > "nslookup -type=ns _msdcs.mydomain.com" I only get dns1 returned.
>
>         You have show us the parent zone.  What are the contents of the
>         child zone?  Are both NS records there?  Also unless you are
>         mydomain.com (a real company), which you are not, stop using their
>         domain name.  If you have to use a fake domain name use example.com
>         which is reserved for this purpose or better still use the real
>         name as then we can do some real online checking.  This way you
>         can also cut and paste from the zone file and we can potentially
>         see other errors.
>
> >
> > The interesting thing is that I am doing this already for a number of
> > other subdomains and BOTH name servers are being returned in a type=NS
> > query. It's only with these underscore domains that the second
> > delegation seems to be ignored. It's almost as if it was something to do
> > with the underscore character (and, yes, I have specified the
> > appropriate check-names ignore).
>
>         It's not related to underscores.
>
>         Mark
> >
> > I'm sure this is something very simple and that I shall feel very
> > foolish when someone points out my error :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Mike Zanker, Northampton, UK
> >
> > Replace 'abuse' with 'mike' for e-mail reply.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
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