Dynamic DNS and Slave Servers

[Chris Buxton]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:25:29AM -0700, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> ...
>> I'll bite!  What is the difference between a sub*domain* and a
>> sub*zone*?
> ...
>
>
> A subdomain can be within the same zone.  For as many levels of  
> child or
> sub-domains as you want:
>
> zone example.edu { ... }
> zone system.subnet.student.class.semester.department.example.edu  
> { ... }
>
> where all intermediate subdomains are part of the example.edu zone.

A (sub)domain can also be larger than a zone. Consider the following  
zones:

example.com.
lab.example.com.
dev.lab.example.com.

The "lab" domain contains the "dev" subzone as well as its own zone,  
yet is also a subdomain (and a subzone) of example.com.

Chris Buxton
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