need help with child subdomains and zone transfers

[Duane Cox]

>
>The illicom.net zone should contain NS records that delegate the
>paxton.illicom.net subdomain to the appropriate servers.  When someone
>queries the AT&T server for a name in paxton.illicom.net, the AT&T server
>will send them the NS records, and the querier will then ask one of those
>nameservers.
>
>If the master server for illicom.net is also a master or slave server for
>paxton.illicom.net it will automatically incorporate the NS records that
>are in the paxton.illicom.net zone file into zone transfers of the
>illicom.net zone.  However, for consistency you should enter the NS records
>there explicitly.
>
SO let me post the zones to see if this is how to do it correctly..
this is not currently setup, but want to make sure I am correct here...

I DONT NEED ANY A RECORDS RIGHT?


Thanks Duane Cox
dcox at coxnetwork.com


illicom.net <ZONE>

$TTL                            86400   ; default host ttl (1 day)
@       IN      SOA     ns1.illicom.net. hostmaster.illicom.net.  (
                                24      ; serial number
                                43200   ; refresh by slave (12 hours)
                                3600    ; retry by slave (1 hour)
                                604800  ; expire by slave (1 week)
                                86400 )    ; minimum zone ttl (1 day)

;; authoritative nameservers for illicom.net

                        IN      NS      ns1.illicom.net.
                        IN      NS      ns2.illicom.net.
                        IN        NS     ns1.att.net.
                        IN      A       12.15.125.225
                        IN      MX  10  smtp-in.illicom.net.

;; hostname information

paxton.illicom.net.  IN     NS     ns1.illicom.net.
paxton.illicom.net.  IN     NS     ns2.illicom.net.

admintool               IN      A       204.91.22.41
core                    IN      A       12.15.125.11
exchange                IN      A       12.15.125.251
;ftp                    IN      A       12.15.125.225
ftp                     IN      A       209.244.197.40
mail                    IN      CNAME   smtp-out
mail2                   IN      A       12.15.125.15

--------------------------------------------------------------------

paxton.illicom.net <ZONE>

$TTL                            86400   ; default host ttl (1 day)
@       IN      SOA     ns1.illicom.net. hostmaster.illicom.net.  (
                                4       ; serial number
                                43200   ; refresh by slave (12 hours)
                                3600    ; retry by slave (1 hour)
                                604800  ; expire by slave (1 week)
                                86400 ) ; minimum zone ttl (1 day)

;; authoritative nameservers for paxton.illicom.net

                        IN      NS      ns1.illicom.net.
                        IN      NS      ns2.illicom.net.

;; hostname information

max1                    IN      A       12.15.125.1
max2                    IN      A       12.15.125.2