Complete explanation of in-bailiwick

[Michele Chubirka]

To be more specific, one reads about how it's better to make sure that
authoritative servers for a domain are in-bailiwick. For example:
The nameservers for foo.com should be listed within foo.com such as 
NS ns.foo.com
Not
NS ns.foo.net

I understand the benefits in having this setup, because the query
wouldn't have to go back to a TLD or root server to obtain information
on the .net domain. However, does this apply to subdomains as well? If
I'm the parent and delegate two different subdomains, but have glue
records for all the nameservers which are located in the different
subdomains, would that be out-of-bailiwick? Am I making sense at all?

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Cricket Liu
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:25 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Complete explanation of in-bailiwick


I doubt you're going to find any discussion of "in-bailiwick" anywhere
but on this mailing list, and even then, only from a few people.  As far
as I know, "bailiwick" isn't defined or used in any DNS-related RFCs.
You could ask folks on the list to explain what they mean when they use
the term, though.

cricket

-----Original Message-----
From:  Michele Chubirka 
Date:  7/29/03 9:35 am
To:  Bind-Users 
Subj:  Complete explanation of in-bailiwick


Could someone go into more detail regarding in-bailiwick delegation and
the relevant RFCs? Thanks.

Michele Chubirka
Unix Systems Administrator
George Washington University
202-994-5791