Split roots (was: Can someone explain forwarders and why I don't need them?)

[Simon Hobson]

I wrote:

>Would it cause problems if in my slave/stub zone declaration I give
>the masters as A and B (the 'internal root servers'), but when my
>server queries A or B, it gets NS records giving Y and Z (the real
>servers for the zone) as the name servers for the zone ?
>
>If it worked and didn't cause problems, this would be enough for us,
>since it would allow us to define everyone elses domains in terms of
>just 2 or three servers which would not change very often. Anyone
>changing their DNS structure would just have to get these two or
>three servers changes, instead of all the organisations having to
>change their setups separately.

I should add that I have suggested that we appoint a central 
maintainer and store the nameserver info for each domain in a 
database of some sort (or just a machine readable flat file), and 
when anything changes, run a script that will generate a file for 
everyone which they can 'include' into their DNS config.

So far it's not been taken up, and I don't want to shout too loud 
incase they turn round and give me the job of writing it !

Simon

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