Parent and Child zone question

[Kevin Darcy]

"Cinense, Mark" wrote:

> Can someone answer this for me?  I was asked if we physically had one
> machine, and our one nameserver is parent to a zone.  Could we then create
> child zones, and use the same nameserver to also be primary for the child
> zones?  It seems logical that it could be done, but wanted to get a second
> opinion.  We want to use the child domains for DDNS and Active Directory.

Sure. A single nameserver can be master for a parent zone and child zones.
For many years, the same set of servers hosted root and "com", for instance.
In our internal DNS, we have one machine that hosts several domain levels
deep.


- Kevin