Delegation of Authority

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:35:52AM +0200,
 Mokwena Motseto <MotsetM at sapo.co.za> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> I am trying to delegate authority of a subdomain and the subdomain
> is windows DNS whereas i am using BIND ver 4.9

This is an extremely old version. Are you sure you still want to use
it? ISC no longer maintains version 4, it can have many security bugs
unfixed and you will find less and less documentation and help for it.

> I want to know how do i do this, i looked in the DNS and BIND book
> they tell me i have to include a stub record in the named.conf and
> that is all

named.conf? In BIND 4? named.conf was introduced in BIND 8. And, to
delegate a subdomain, you do not modify named.conf at all, you edit
only the zone file to add NS ("nameserver") records.
 
> where the should the record of the A record of the delegated domain
> reside

You mean the A record of the nameservers of the delegated domain? If
the nameservers of the delegated domain are in the delegated domain,
you need to store them in two places, in the delegating zone (where
they are named "glue records") and in the delegated zone. Otherwise,
just keep them in one place.

A real example, with real names, would help to understand whet you want.