Sub Domain delegation

[Kevin Darcy]

Why don't you just set up a "lan" top-level domain and delegate from
there? As you have discovered, trying to tie various subdomains and
sub-subdomains together with forwarding "string" is fraught with danger.
That's why they invented delegations in the first place.


- Kevin

P.S. Note to Brad: see what I mean? This is a perfect example of "enough
rope"....

suckelm at rdsdata.com wrote:

> I have a domain called test.lan and a subdomain called
> domain.test.lan.  When pointing to the domain.test.lan name server,
> all works great.  When you point to the test.lan name server, it can't
> resolve anything is the domain "domain.test.lan", like it doesn't
> forward the request?
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matt
>
> Configs found on ns.test.lan:
>
> Named.conf:
>
> options {
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>          forward first;
>          forwarders {
>          205.150.58.253;
>          };
>
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.root";
> };
> zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "localhost.rev";
> };
>
> zone "rds.lan" {
>         type master;
>         file "rds.lan";
> };
> zone "130.16.172.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "reverse_172_16_130.db";
> };
> zone "135.16.172.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "reverse_172_16_135.db";
> };
> zone "131.16.172.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "reverse_172_16_131.db";
> };
> zone "132.16.172.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "reverse_172_16_132.db";
> };
>
> test.lan file:
>
> ;
> @               IN      SOA     test.lan.     hostmaster.test.lan. (
>                                 20000703
>                      43200
>                                 900
>                                 604800
>                                 43200  )
> ;
>                                 IN      NS      ns.test.lan.
> domain.test.lan.        IN      NS      domain.test.lan.
> localhost                       IN      A        127.0.0.1
> www                     IN      A              172.16.130.2
> ns                      IN      A        172.16.130.10
>
> on subdomain.test.lan I have the following:
>
> named.conf:
>
> options {
>         directory "/etc";
>         forward first;
>         forwarders {
>         172.16.130.10;
>         };
>         };
>
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "/etc/db.cache";
>         };
>
> zone "test.lan" {
>         type forward;
>         };
>
> zone "domain.test.lan" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/domain.test.lan.hosts";
>         };
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/localhost.rev";
>         };
>
> and the domain.test.lan.hosts file:
>
> domain.test.lan.        IN  SOA  domain.test.lan.
> root.domain.test.lan. (
>                         985458765
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         432000
>                         38400 )
>                         IN     NS     domain.test.lan.
> www.domain.test.lan.    IN      A       172.16.130.98