Athority in Bind 9

Tue Feb 13 05:41:37 UTC 2001

> <RE rm-cpa.com> I never indicated that
> such a thing existed (although the SOA MNAME for the domain *does* make that
> implication; yet another thing that's wrong about their DNS).
> 

The domain for the network is rm-cpa.com.  Are you saying it would be
advisable to give a host that name or an alias?

> Try pointing your dig at ns1.cnchost.com and ns2.cnchost.com, two of the
delegated
> nameservers for rm-cpa.com. They are clueless about that domain. They're not
only
> lame for it, but actually *dis*informative.
> 
 dig  @ns2.cnchost.com mail.rm-cpa.com

; <<>> DiG 9.0.1 <<>> @ns2.cnchost.com mail.rm-cpa.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 16025
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.rm-cpa.com.               IN      A

;; Query time: 120 msec
;; SERVER: 207.155.252.5#53(ns2.cnchost.com)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 13 00:38:59 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 33

What disinformation - from what I see their just giving nothing - like we are
dead to them.

> To do it right, make sure to add the same NS records to the delegations as
well as
> to the zone itself.
>

So - I make a zone for them on their machine and mine.  I should be a slave to
them?

 Ruben

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