This is probably a stooopid question, but I searched and couldn't find an answer here.
I am a customer of a small DNS provider that uses PowerDNS. I don't know what version, so I'll assume it's recent. I asked them to set up a new sub zone to our existing parent zone, they did it but we ran into some testing issues. We have an embedded OS with a minimal IP stack and it has intermittent name resolution issues. -- Key -- mydomain.tld is my domain. newsubzone.mydomain.tld is the sub zone being added myotherdomain.tld is my other domain, hosted elsewhere ns1.mydnsprovider.net is my outsourced DNS provider's NS for mydomain.tld --- Begin snippet --- myhost IN CNAME myhost.newsubzone.mydomain.tld newsubzone IN NS ns1.myotherdomain.tld newsubzone IN NS ns2.myotherdomain.tld --- End snippet --- My reading of bind documentation seems to show that when delegating a subzone to an external server we need glue host (A) records for the subzone nameservers (example below). -- Question - do we need A records for the external DNS servers like this ? ----------- ns1.myotherdomain.tld IN A 10.1.0.100 ns2.myotherdomain.tld IN A 10.1.0.150 -- End question ------------------------------------------------------------------- Does this sound accurate ? I don't have the entire zone file, and I don't know how exactly they host it, so I understand this is incomplete information. My snippet doesn't have trailing dots either, so I'm going to guess they host in a DB. -------------- When I do a dig to my DNS providers NS, I get the following: C:\>dig @ns1.mydnsprovider.net ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @ns1.mydnsprovider.net myhost.mydomain.tld ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 708 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;myhost.mydomain.tld. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: myhost.mydomain.tld. 3600 IN CNAME myhost.newsubzone.mydomain.tld. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: newsubzone.mydomain.tld. 3600 IN NS ns1.myotherdomain.tld. newsubzone.mydomain.tld. 3600 IN NS ns2.myotherdomain.tld. ;; Query time: 14 msec ;; SERVER: x.x.x.x#53(x.x.x.x) ;; WHEN: Mon Jun 27 16:27:20 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Proper-delegation-of-a-subzone-tp31942320p31942320.html Sent from the PowerDNS mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
