Parent not delegating

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9le1mj$q7e at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Minh Van Le <mvanle at dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>My parent zone isn't delegating a subdomain properly. The parent doesn't
>seem to be referring a query to the delegated subdomain's name server.
>
>The nslookup for host l2 (l2.plip.orin.home.) doesn't work when queried
>on the parent host j1 (j1.orin.home.). Details below:

Since you didn't set the "norecurse" flag before querying the parent
server, it apprently tried to forward the query to l1.plip, and it got
error.  Perhaps it tried to send to the 200.0.0.1 address instead of
192.168.0.5, and the former address doesn't work.

I suggest you use dig rather than nslookup for troubleshooting this.  The
problem with nslookup is that it gives the same "Non-existent host/domain"
error message for many different errors.  It's useful to see the detailed
error code, which dig displays.

>
>partial contents of SOA zone data file:
>----------------------------------------
>orin.home.  IN  SOA   j1.orin.home.   root.j1.orin.home. (
>                            2001080810 ; Serial (YYYYMMDDnn)
>                            3600       ; Refresh
>                            1800       ; Retry
>                            86400      ; Expire
>                            900 )      ; Minimum TTL
>;
>; nameservers
>;
>                        IN  NS      j1.orin.home.
>                        IN  NS      j5.orin.home.
>;
>; delegated zones
>;
>plip                    IN  NS      l1.plip.orin.home.
>
>;
>; glue records for delegated zones
>;
>l1.plip                 IN  A       200.0.0.1
>                        IN  A       192.168.0.5
>----------------------------------------
>
>[root at j1 23:16:09 named]# nslookup l1.plip.orin.home 192.168.0.1
>Server:  j1.orin.home
>Address:  192.168.0.1
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    l1.plip.orin.home
>Addresses:  192.168.0.5, 200.0.0.1
>	
>root at j1 23:16:22 named]# nslookup l2.plip.orin.home 192.168.0.5
>Server:  j5.orin.home
>Address:  192.168.0.5
>
>Name:    l2.plip.orin.home
>Addresses:  192.168.0.8, 200.0.0.2
>
>root at j1 23:16:34 named]# nslookup l2.plip.orin.home 192.168.0.1
>Server:  j1.orin.home
>Address:  192.168.0.1
>
>*** j1.orin.home can't find l2.plip.orin.home: Non-existent host/domain
>
>


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