Can I "re-delegate" an already delegated zone?

[Richard Roberto]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:09 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Can I "re-delegate" an already delegated zone?
> 
> 
> In article <9odk1f$22v at pub3.rc.vix.com>,

> > It looks like the
> > recursive server is not sending requests with the recursion 
> > desired bit set.
> 
> That's correct.  The recursive server thinks it's asking an 
> authoritative
> server, so it doesn't set the Recursion Desired flag; it will 
> do its own
> iteration.  You need to add NS records for the subdomain to the
> dedlegend.com zone.  Then the FreeBSD box will send back 
> proper referrals,
> and the recursive server will query the Win2K server.

This is what I thought.  Drag.  And my NetBSD CD isn't bootable for Sparc
after all 
(which is now all coming back to me).  I'll have to set up a netboot server
to fix 
this.  So much for a quick fix :-)

> 
> >Is this correct?  I can't tell since I don't have anything 
> that can inspect
> >the headers of the DNS packets to tell me :-(
> 
> dig shows the packet headers.  If you want to emulate what 
> the recursive
> server is doing, use the +norecurse option.

Alas, dig only shows my headers, not the headers for the packets the
recursive 
server sends.  But what you say above makes sense, and certainly supports
what I've 
observed.  Oh well.  Off to the netbsd site to figure out how to netboot the
install
CD...

Thanks

rgr