Sub Domain Delegation (newbie)

[Kevin Darcy]

As I said, the most straightforward way is to delegate hot.rod.com as a subzone
of rod.com. This just involves adding one or more NS records to the parent
zone. You should find information about zone delegation in the _DNS_and_BIND_
book, or any of the online resources.


- Kevin

DJM wrote:

> main.rod.com is running BIND 9.1.  Perhaps I should've specified.
>
> mustang.hot.rod.com can resolve its own address fine, so that Windows DNS
> appears to be working.  The issue is that all my clients point to
> main.rod.com as their DNS, and when I try from, say, iron.rod.com to look up
> mustang.hot.rod.com, main.rod.com says it's an unknown host.
>
> I'm hoping someone could give me an example of how to set this up (getting
> BIND to forward requests for a subdomain to that server), because all the
> documentation I've managed to find (including HOWTOs) either gloss over this
> information or don't mention it at all.
>
> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:9b2ljs$4t at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> >
> > First of all, this is a BIND newsgroup/mailing-list. Is BIND anywhere in
> this
> > picture? Is it implicated in the problem you're having?
> >
> > Generally speaking, if a nameserver is configured to be authoritative for
> > hot.rod.com, and mustang.hot.rod.com is a valid name in the zone, and a
> client
> > can't resolve mustang.hot.rod.com even when it specifies it explicitly and
> is
> > pointed directly to the authoritative server, then I'd say the nameserver
> is
> > broken.
> >
> > If you want names in hot.rod.com to be resolved even by *other*
> nameservers
> > besides the one(s) which are authoritative for it, then the most
> > straightforward way to accomplish this is to delegate hot.rod.com as a
> > subzone.
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> > DJM wrote:
> >
> > > Didn't see the answer in the newsgroup, but at least I tried looking
> first.
> > >
> > > I have a domain, call it rod.com.  From the outside world, *.rod.com
> > > resolves to a single address, which is what I want.  For the inside
> world,
> > > the DNS at main.rod.com holds addresses for all the individual machines,
> so
> > > iron.rod.com and brass.rod.com resolve to individual machines.
> > >
> > > Inside, I also have a Windows 2000 Domain Server.  It's configured to be
> a
> > > sub-domain at hot.rod.com.  The machine, mustang, has the address
> > > mustang.hot.rod.com.  It is configured to be the DNS for this subdomain,
> so
> > > ideally if I add another machine to hot.rod.com it will be updated here.
> > >
> > > >From iron.rod.com, I can search for "brass" and it will resolve to
> > > brass.rod.com and the correct address.  However, I cannot search for
> > > "mustang" (not surprising) or even "mustang.hot" or
> "mustang.hot.rod.com"
> > > and have it work.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help this newbie in setting up main.rod.com to forward
> > > appropriate requests for the subdomain?  I've tried a few different
> things,
> > > and I think I've just ended up confusing myself and need to start over.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >