Delegation of Authority/ Parenting

[Mokwena Motseto]

Our company uses version 4.9 for some reason on AIX and thats how i found
it, we are looking at upgrading to version 9.2.3 on Redhat Linux
our domain is sapo.co.za
the child domain is content.sapo.co.za

the name of the machine that will host the child domain currently is
midrandcr.sapo.co.za

What entries do i have to make to enable this delegation on the parent
server
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr]
Sent: 02 June 2004 10:06
To: Mokwena Motseto
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Delegation of Authority


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.

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