How does a child find its parent?

[Ben Croswell]

Another option would be zone level forwarding on the child to point at the
parent or stub zones.

-Ben Croswell
On May 8, 2012 3:59 PM, "Mike Bernhardt" <bernhardt at bart.gov> wrote:

>  In this case, the root only knows the external public server, not the
> internal parent who is doing the delegating. So it would seem that slaving
> the internal parent is the only solution for resolving hosts in the
> internal parent domain, correct?****
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> *From:* Ben Croswell [mailto:ben.croswell at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:21 PM
> *To:* Mike Bernhardt
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> *Subject:* Re: How does a child find its parent?****
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> The child doesn't know it's parent and goes up to the root like any other
> server would. ****
>
> -Ben Croswell ****
>
> On May 8, 2012 2:13 PM, "Mike Bernhardt" <bernhardt at bart.gov> wrote:****
>
> Reading the section on delegation in the O'Reilly book, I'm confused about
> something: The parent is configured to delegate the subdomain to the child
> with glue records, etc. But how does the child know who to ask if a host in
> the subdomain requests a record in the parent zone? They don't show any
> configuration example for that other than making the child a slave for the
> parent zone.
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