Claiming Authority for root

[Kevin Darcy]

Allen Bettiyon wrote:

> > I think you are mistaken. Every zone has exactly 1 SOA record. How can
> > you create a new zone by getting nsupdate to add a SOA record for it?
> > This update would have to go to the parent zone. If that SOA record
> > was added successfully, it would mean the parent zone had two SOA
> > records. This is just wrong. I'd be very surprised if nsupdate and
> > named let you do this. [Not that I'm silly enough to have tried such a
> > thing.] And can you do zone transfers of these dynamically added
> > "zones"?
>
> This works because we are not 'really' creating a new zone.  Everything
> lives in the "." zone.  Basically, if I want to have my name server
> resolve a new domain I simply use the following command with nsupdate:
>
> update add my.new.domain.com 7200 A 1.2.3.4
>
> so in other words:
>
> "my.new.domain.com"  +  "."
>    (hostname)           (domain or zone)
>

Okay, this is a matter of terminology then. You're creating a new
*subdomain*, not a new *zone*.

- Kevin