RE: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Spain, Dr. Jeffry A.
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

Re: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 5/8/2012 1:56 PM, Mike Bernhardt 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

Re: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Ben Croswell
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 bernha...@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

RE: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Bernhardt
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:21 PM To: Mike Bernhardt Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: How does a child find its parent? 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

RE: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Ben Croswell
:* bind-users@lists.isc.org *Subject:* Re: How does a child find its parent? ** ** 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 bernha...@bart.gov wrote: Reading the section

RE: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Bernhardt
Subject: Re: How does a child find its parent? 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 bernha...@bart.gov wrote: Reading the section on delegation in the O'Reilly book, I'm confused about

Re: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Kevin Darcy
! *From:*Ben Croswell [mailto:ben.crosw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:16 PM *To:* Mike Bernhardt *Cc:* bind-users@lists.isc.org *Subject:* RE: How does a child find its parent? Another option would be zone level forwarding on the child to point at the parent

Re: How does a child find its parent?

2012-05-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 3c6f299b652a4e71b1af8bbce9380...@netadmin.bart.gov, Mike Bernhardt writes: 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