Subdomain question.....

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Ian B <ian_barraclough at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK - pretty simple question really - I need to add a subdomain that
> has the same name as an A record in the parent domain. This is to
> cover a marketing typo that was released in error!

> Basically I need to say 

> name      IN   A     1.2.3.4

> and then in the subdomain

> www       IN   CNAME     name.parent.com.

I would do :

1/ remove the 'A' record in the parent, replace with a 'NS' to the servers
   for the subdomain
2/ in the zonefile for the subdomain, add an 'A' record for the subdomain itself :

@	IN	SOA (whatever )
	IN	NS	1-st server
	IN	NS	2-nd server
	IN	A	( yout IP here )

3/ did i see that you used bind 8.2.1 ?  REPLACE REPLACE REPLACE !!!
It has serious security holes !




> So i config appropriately and I can get my primary to answer correctly
> but when I xfer from one of secondaries it tells me that the primary
> is not authoratative for the zone I am trying to xfer??? Any help much
> appreciated - some logs/files below for examples....

> bind-8.2.1

> From messages........
> Jun 12 10:52:49 host.parent.com named[14383]: Zone "name.parent.com"
> (file db
> .name.parent): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead

> db.parent...........

> name          IN      A       1.2.3.4

> db.name.parent.........

> @               IN      SOA     ns.parent.com. mail.parent.com. (
>                                 2002061208      ; Serial yyyymmdd##
> (## rev)
>                                 36000           ; 10hr Refresh
>                                 3600            ; 1hr Retry
>                                 691200          ; 8days Expiration
>                                 86400 )         ; 24hr  Min Time to
> Live


>                 IN      NS      ns3.parent.com.
>                 IN      NS      ns5.parent.com.
>                 IN      NS      ns6.parent.com.


> www             IN      CNAME   name.parent.com.


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