Question on delegation and recursion

[José Enrique Díaz Jolly]

On 13 Nov 2002, Ted Hajduk wrote:

=>
=>Long time reader and 1st time poster - please be gentle.
=>
=>I'm trying to understand the following internal DNS scenario and I
=>could use some help.
=>
=>Three DNS servers - all are doing recursion
=>
=>1) DNS1 is primary master for zone B.C and has delegated zone A.B.C to
=>DNS2 (but it is not a slave for A.B.C - so no zone xfer)
=>
=>2) DNS2 is primary master for zone A.B.C
=>
=>3) DNS3 is slave for zone B.C only - and therefore gets a zone xfer
=>from DNS1 for B.C
=>
=>Question: If a user sends a DNS request for A.B.C to DNS3, will it be
=>resolved?

Yes it will be resolved actually, as long as you have properly set in DNS1
your zone delegation of A.B.C to DNS2 and DNS3 is a resolver.
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