In article <ghub48$92...@sf1.isc.org>, "Todd Snyder" <tsny...@rim.com> wrote:
> On our slave, there are no specific declarations for the 10.131.10 zone, > or even 10.131, just 10. > > On the server we're slaving off of, there would probably be more, but I > don't know as I'm not in control of that server/servers. Since your server is a slave, the delegtion records in the 10.in-addr.arpa zone will be received in the zone transfer. > Will reverse lookups by default continue to look for more specific > domains, recursing as necessary? If so, how far will it go? I'm There's nothing special about reverse domains. All lookups follow delegations, going as far as necessary to get the answer. > slaving an "A" class, and it went and found a "C". If we'd had the "B" > declared, would it have stopped there, or kept going? If the B contains a delegation to a C, it will go there. > > This behaviour seems odd to me, and I've not been able to find > information about this behaviour in the book(s). It's just the basic DNS protocol. If a name is in a delegated subdomain, you follow the NS records to get the answer. Read the resolver algorithm description in RFC 1034. -- Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
