Help... DNS Structuring Question!

[Barry Margolin]

In article <395CBDEA.DC726341 at isdn.net.il>, amir  <sorvih1 at isdn.net.il> wrote:
>If I have delegated the sub-domains x.a.com and y.a.com to poeple , and
>yet I want queries between
>them not to have to go all the way to root , then to .com then to a.com
>and then to the other domain,
>but only go up to a.com , and he will refer them downwards ... this will
>both relieve unneeded
>load on the "." servers and make my queries faster... how do i do that ?
>i've tried adding
>the a.com as a hint in both the sub-domains files , didnt work..
>what is the proper "rfc way" , to make one domain go straightly to
>another ?
>and please , dont answer me "forwarding"(lets say i want all the .com
>queries to my ns begin at .com ,
>cant send him a forwarding query , since it's recursive...)...
>thanks for your time reading this ,

Since going all the way from the root servers only happens when there's
nothing in the cache, what's the problem?  After the first time, they'll
have all the NS records cached and they'll go directly to the subdomain
servers.

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