Delegating nested subdomains

[Kevin Darcy]

Mikos Jobanx wrote:
> Hi,
> this is kind of a fundamental / theoretical question, but anyways - is it
> legal / allowed to delegate 'subdomains of an subdomain' into different
> authoritative name servers, in one zone?
>
> For example in the zone file for example.com:
>
> foo.example.com IN NS ns.alpha.tld.
> one.foo.example.com IN NS ns.gamma.tld.
> host.one.foo.example.com IN NS ns.omega.tld.
>   
No. Delegating a subdomain creates a "zone cut" and you -- the parent 
zone -- can't delegate beneath it. Everything below that level of the 
hierarchy is now in the child zone or delegated to a descendant.

                                                                         
                           - Kevin