subdomain delegation question #2: (simple config)

[dalton stickney]

Thanks to all of you for the great advice and insights! Everything is
working now, it was a combination of different issues and the advice
i received was invaluable to solving the issues.

Thanks again!

dalton

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)
<andris at aernet.ru> wrote:
> Hi Dalton,
>
>
> Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:00 -0700 dalton stickney wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I have set up a simple bind config to test this. I am very obviously
>> missing something simple here, but i can't figure out what it is for
>> some reason.
>> I am trying to delegate name servers for the subdomain
>> sccnj04.example.com to ns sip.example.com.
>>
>> When i dig i get no error, but also no answer:
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> ns
>> sccnj04.example.com @ns1
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8850
>> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
>> 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;sccnj04.example.com.         IN      NS
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> example.com.          86400   IN      SOA     ns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com.
>> 2011052405 3600 900 864000 86400
>>
>> ;; Query time: 0 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 10.1.0.8#53(10.1.0.8)
>> ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 13:08:03 2011
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 88
>>
>>
>> Here is my simple config:
>>
>> named.conf
>>
>>
>> options {
>>    directory "/var/named";
>>    version "Nope.";
>> };
>>
>> zone "example.com" in {
>>       type master;
>>       file "example.com";
>> };
>>
>> Here is the zone file:
>>
>> $TTL 86400
>>
>> ; Start of Authority
>> example.com. 86400 IN SOA   ns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com.
> (
>>                             2011052405 ; Serial
>>                             3600       ; Refresh
>>                             900        ; Retry
>>                             864000     ; Expire
>>                             86400      ; Min TTL
>>                             )
>> ; Host
>>
>> sip.example.com.   IN A 10.1.0.8
>> ; Nameserver
>> example.com.       IN NS ns1.example.com.
>>
>> $ORIGIN sccnj04.example.com.
>> sccnj04            IN NS sip.example.com.
> ^^^^^^^^^
> You current $ORIGIN is sccnj04.example.com, so the non-FQDN label
> "sccnj04" at the line above would be sccnj04.sccnj04.example.com when
> converted to FQDN.
>
>
> --
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.name/
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