subdomain authority??

[Jeff Reasoner]

I may be missing something here, but it sounds like you already have
split DNS namespace, but not necessarily for example.com. If you want to
use child.example.com and keep it completely internal, you will have to
create an example.com domain on your private DNS servers, and delegate
there. All the A records associated with child.example.com will
presumably be reserved, and therefore useless if added to your public
servers.
If you set it up this way, you won't forward anything, because your
servers are already authoritative.

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 08:17, TIM MOORE wrote:
> This might be a simple question, I just haven't found the answer looking
> through the archives.  I want to know if I can be authoritative for a
> subdomain (eg. child.example.com) and still send requests for the parent
> domain to a specific external server (example.com).  We currently run
> DNS completely internal to the internet and I would like to be
> authoritative for a subdomain and still have the requests for the parent
> domain go to a public DNS server.  How would I do the config?  Would I
> use a foward statement specifically for the parent domain, or would
> requests naturally go to our fowarder because we do not have the
> parent?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
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