BIND9 reverse delegation

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Wed Jan 31 18:43:51 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse DeFer <jesse_defer at choicehotels.com> writes:

    Jesse> I have noticed that BIND9 handles reverse lookups
    Jesse> differently than BIND8.  It doesn't seem to let you
    Jesse> 'over-ride' reverse entries that have been delegated, in
    Jesse> the parent.

In fact apart from essential glue, BIND9 doesn't let you add any data
that lives under the zone cut for a delegated zone.

	... example snipped ...

    Jesse> Have I been doing it wrong all along and it's been 'fixed' in BIND9?

Yes and yes. You got away with it because BIND[48] had one monolithic
cache for everything. BIND9 doesn't.


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