Authorative DNS for Subdomains on another server?

[WebReactor Networks]

> It's important that each new subdomain is a new zone.

Therein lies the crux.  If each subdomain is a zone, then you need to add a
"zone" directive to named.conf (or some included file) for each subdomain on
both master and slaves.

If you could live with each subdomain being within the B.MyDomain.com zone,
then your job would be easy; you'd only need one zone directive.

  - John R. S. 


> From: "K" <flashonline21 at hotmail.com>
> Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:47:27 GMT
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Authorative DNS for Subdomains on another server?
> 
> I have 2 machines that use different subdomains under one master domain
> name.
> Machine A hosts MyDomain.com.
> Machine B hosts B.MyDomain.com.
> Both machines run Bind DNS server.
> 
> Machine A is the main authorative DNS server for MyDomain.com.
> Machine B hosts accounts and creates subdomains under B.MyDomain.com.
> 
> Now, without having to have B add new subdomain zones to A's named.conf file
> every time B creates a subdomain, how would I do this?  It's important that
> each new subdomain is a new zone.
> 
> I'm thinking that I can just put in A's named.conf that it's a slave for
> zone B.MyDomain.com and that the master for B.MyDomain.com is on server B.
> 
> Now if I add a new zone "Hello.B.MyDomain.com" on server B, would that be
> sufficient?  Or do I still have to create the entry in A's named.conf file?