Multiple Domains on One Name Server

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Jul 7 21:25:33 UTC 2000


Blair Copeland wrote:

> > > how would the data zone files and the named.conf file be configured?
>
> > You create the ldap.jlic.com domain just like you would create the jlic.com.
> > They work the same.  :)
>
> Fogive my ignorance, but inside the file for "jlic.com", I could manually add
> a record for xxx.ldap.jlic.com.  So, "ldap.jlic.com" would be in two places?
> Or, would DNS bark because I had a specific zone def for the "ldap.jlic.com"
> in a different file?

The jlic.com zone is "cut" at the ldap.jlic.com "branch", and therefore
xxx.ldap.jlic.com is technically *outside* of the jlic.com zone. Because it's
out-of-zone data, named will "bark" at it (and ignore it), except in the special
case of a "glue" record.


- Kevin




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