more on delegating subdomain

[Kevin Darcy]

Matt Kehler wrote:

> I am resending this as we had a email issue last night and some stuff
> was lost.   I'm trying to delegate a subdomain..its not working.  I do
> not see the requests go out of my primary domain nameserver.  I'm using
> bind9.2.latest.  Snip of my domain zone data file is below from my
> primary NS server, wrha001ns04 for the wrha.mb.ca domain, and trying to
> delegate the ad.wrha.mb.ca subdomain off to the nameserver wrha001ad01
> (at 172.19.40.21)  .  is the below not correct?
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> [root at wrha001ns04 etc]# cat wrha.mb.ca.hosts.internal
> $ttl 38400
> wrha.mb.ca.     IN      SOA     wrha001ns04. root (
>                         1030053590
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         38400 )
> wrha.mb.ca.     IN      NS      wrha001ns04.
> ad.wrha.mb.ca.  IN      NS      wrha001ad01.ad.wrha.mb.ca.
> home.wrha.mb.ca.        IN      A       172.19.40.30
> proxy.wrha.mb.ca.       IN      A       172.19.40.5
> wrha1_srv.wrha.mb.ca.   IN      A       172.19.40.10
> apps.wrha.mb.ca.        IN      A       172.19.40.19
> wrha001ad01.ad.wrha.mb.ca.      IN      A       172.19.40.21

Why would you expect to see requests "go out of your primary domain
nameserver"? Presumably by this you mean the wrha001ns04 nameserver. Since
you've delegated ad.wrha.mb.ca to the nameserver
wrha001ad01.ad.wrha.mb.ca, queries for anything in that zone would go to
that nameserver instead.


- Kevin