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[Cricket Liu]

> If my name servers are authoritative for a class B, say
> 226.165.in-addr-arpa, but we delegate about 10 subnets to subdomains (for
> which we are the slave,) should another name server with our permission be
> able to transfer the zone 226.165.in-addr.arpa from us?

If your name servers were authoritative for 226.165.in-addr.arpa
(note it's dot, not dash, followed by "arpa"), they would be able
to.

> Right now they can transfer with no problems, say 4.226.165 and
> 10.226.165----in other words individual subnets, but not the whole
> 226.165.in-addr.arpa at one time.
>
> My named.conf does not have a zone 226.165.in-addr.arpa specified, rather
> each individual subnet of that zone is specified, like
> 4.226.165.in-addr.arpa, etc (but not all as we don't fully utilize all
> possible subnets.)

Therefore, your name server is not authoritative for
226.165.in-addr.arpa, which is why other name servers
can't transfer that zone from it.

> Note error below:
>
> Jul  6 15:49:57 root named-xfer[19894]: [165.226.4.140] not authoritative
> for
> 226.165.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 0, aucount 1
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

cricket