DNS - subdomain delegate

Hugo Rebello hugo.rebello at dhl.com
Fri Apr 1 23:09:32 UTC 2005


I must to insert the configuration below with my current configuration ?

Example:

@      IN   NS   dns1.bar.com.
foo    IN   NS   dns1.foo.bar.com.

dns1                           IN   A   192.168.1.1
dns1.foo.bar.com.       IN   A   192.168.1.100

Thank you.

Cheers,
Hugo


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Hugo Rebello wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I am using DNS server in Fedora Core 3, and I have just one internal 
>> domain (i.e. test.com.br).
>> I need to create a sub-domain, however in other site and other server 
>> will control this sub-domain.
>> My question is. How can I delegate dns sub-domain ?
>
>
> Simple.  Create NS record for subdomain.  For example, if your domain 
> is bar.com, and you want to delegate foo.bar.com:
>
> foo               IN NS dns1.foo.bar.com.
>                   IN NS dns2.foo.bar.com.
> dns1.foo.bar.com. IN A  1.2.3.4
> dns2.foo.bar.com. IN A  1.2.3.5
>
> Make sure you don't ommit any of those dots ;-)
>
> Basically, this tells your local BIND that dns1.foo.bar.com and 
> dns2.foo.bar.com are name servers for foo.bar.com domain.  You must 
> include A records for those two servers on parent server (as shown 
> above) so that resolvers have enough information to contact them.  The 
> above example is if you want to have two servers for foo.bar.com.  You 
> can have only one if you want.  Or three.  Or any number of them.  
> Make sure you list all of them on parent server (no much point in 
> having multiple servers if nobody outside domain knows about them).
>
> There are many online resources describing this.  You might also 
> consider getting copy of "DNS and BIND" (4th edition also covers BIND 
> 9, so you probably want to make sure you get that one, not the older 
> editions) written by Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu, publisher is O'Reilly.
>




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