zone and sub-zone

[Robert Story]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:54:59 -0500 Frank wrote:
FYFL> But, for example:
FYFL> 
FYFL> host A hosts both domain xyz.org and sub-domain abc.xyz.org as master
FYFL> 
FYFL> host B only hosts domain xyz.org as slave, no sub-domain abc.xyz.org defined
FYFL> 
FYFL> Say a client looks up against host B for a host name 123.abc.xyz.org in
FYFL> sub-domain. Since host B is also authoritative for xyz.org (but not
FYFL> abc.xyz.org), will host B reply as NXDOMAIN or will go to host A find out
FYFL> and return the right resolution?

That depends on whether or not host B has recursion enabled. If it
does, it should go to host A to find the data. If not it will return
the nameservers for abc.xyz.org (presumably host A).

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Robert Story
SPARTA