simple: how to add hosts for higher domain ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <chp9e8$2j6m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Uwe Dippel <udippel at uniten.edu.my> wrote:

> I may be slow, but I've been playing for several days with this problem:
> 
> When I put
> 
> zone "uniten.edu.my" in named.conf, I can - correctly - add 
> helper.uniten.edu.my to the file ../master/uni.sec; A, MX and everything.
> And it will even resolve properly.
> But this is outright wrong, since my bind is no SOA for uniten.edu.my; 
> and messes up a few things.
> 
> But when I (correctly) put
> zone "dns2.uniten.edu.my" in named.conf, all records in 
> ../master/uni.sec will show up as .....dns2.uniten.edu.my; including 
> that helper; which will - wrongly - make it as helper.dns2.uniten.edu.my.
> 
> Now I'm asking for a hint, how to bring both together; how could a 
> machine contain a name for another box having the same hierarchy as the 
> bind machine ?
> How can I make dns2.uniten.edu.my resolve helper.uniten.edu.my properly ?

zone "helper.uniten.edu.my"

Also, the administrator of uniten.edu.my will have to put delegation 
records for this subdomain into the parent domain if you want the rest 
of the Internet to see your records.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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