Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread Todd Snyder
Good day, (BIND 9.6.0-P1) Although, to me, delegation seems like a fairly simple configuration, I seem to be having problems. What I am trying to do is very simple - I have a lab, and I want to delegate part of the namespace to someone else in the lab. My configuration looks like this: (zone

Re: Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread John Hascall
My understanding of delegation is that the resolver goes out to it's configured nameserver. That nameserver returns the NS records for the delegated namespace, then the resolver goes to the delegated server to ask the next question. Am I incorrect in that? It works that way, sometimes.

RE: Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread Todd Snyder
It works that way, sometimes. If recursion is enabled on your server, it will query the other servers in the NS records on behalf of the resolver and return what it finds. If recursion is off, it will just return the NS records and the resolver is expected to follow them (and some really dumb

RE: Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread Todd Snyder
AM To: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: RE: Delegation or PEBKAC problems? it's been pointed out that I made a mistake cleaning up my example data below .. my dig should read: [10:43:08 r...@ns01.lab.foo.example:~ ()]# dig @ns01.lab.foo.example record.group.lab.foo.example any -Original Message

Re: Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Andrews
...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Todd Snyder Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:59 AM To: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: RE: Delegation or PEBKAC problems? it's been pointed out that I made a mistake cleaning up my example data below .. my dig should read: [10:43