Question about adding new domains/subdomains/parenting (real confused here)

[Kevin Darcy]

At the very most, lucky.cs.uml.edu would need to be serving the new zone authoritatively, with
the zone containing an NS record pointing at the name lucky.cs.uml.edu.

But there's no reason why the name "lucky.cs.uml.edu" would need to be a zone, which is
essentially what you're saying. That makes no sense whatsoever.


- Kevin

HYK_TremorZ at hotmail.com wrote:

> I already did talk to register.com and it seems that i need to contact
> the technical contact of the person who owns the nameserver who keeps
> the A record of lucky.cs.uml.edu (the nameserver who 'owns' lucky is
> saturn.cs.uml.edu which is the name server for the cs.uml.edu domain).
>  Is it true that if i want to register lucky as a nameserver with
> register.com that i would need a corresponding NS and A records with
> the nameserver pointing to lucky (saturn)?  That's what i think the
> tech support at register.com was getting at but he was a little unsure
> himself.
>
>
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message news:<afqk74$a530$1 at isrv4.isc.org>...
> > HYK_TremorZ at hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Ok,
> > >
> > >   I'm trying to add my host lucky.cs.uml.edu as a nameserver for my
> > > new domain name testing123.net (incidentally, lucky.cs.uml.edu and
> > > testing123.net will be on the same computer).  I've had problems
> > > adding lucky.cs.uml.edu to the list of name servers at register.com
> > > (which is what i used to register testing123.net).  Basically, the
> > > webform won't let me add it.  From my understanding, do i need to add
> > > an NS record to lucky's parent (cs.uml.edu... saturn.cs.uml.edu being
> > > the nameserver for the cs.uml.edu zone) indicating that lucky is a
> > > nameserver?
> > >
> > > Would the following record on saturn.cs.uml.edu work:
> > >
> > > lucky IN NS lucky.cs.uml.edu.
> > >
> > > (ps, there should already be an A record for lucky on saturn).
> >
> > No, that's completely unnecessary, and unless you're actually going to
> > define a "lucky.cs.uml.edu" zone on lucky.cs.uml.edu, it would be lame
> > for the zone. Which is Not a Good Thing.
> >
> > Do you think the name of every nameserver on the Internet has its own
> > zone? fxshpr01.extra.daimlerchrysler.com -- as one example among many --
> > doesn't.
> >
> > TALK TO YOUR REGISTRAR. Making wild conjectures about what your
> > registrar requires or doesn't require, for their proprietary
> > registration form/CGI/whatever, isn't a very efficient way of resolving
> > this issue. Sometimes you just have to go directly to the source. Email
> > and the telephone are wonderful inventions.
> >
> >
> > - Kevin