From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 10 05:01:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA11271 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from bigbrother.rust.net (bigbrother.rust.net [209.69.72.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA11266 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by bigbrother.rust.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25658; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:57:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael W. Lucas" Message-Id: <199712101257.HAA25658@bigbrother.rust.net> Subject: Re: Authority records In-Reply-To: from Scot Elliott at "Dec 10, 97 06:54:53 am" To: scot@poptart.org (Scot Elliott) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:57:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott, The master zone has to make any delegation nameserver changes. :( With all this trouble, I'd suggest getting your own domain. ml > The main domain for our company is hosted with another ISP - and after a > long struggle have just convinced them to delegate a subdomain to our > department for a new service. My question is: > > Should the NS (authority) records in the subdomain-zone file be the same > as the ones our other ISP has chosen - or can I add extra secondaries to > the zone and put them in here myself. Will nameservers cache this > information on previous lookups in case my server and the secondary our > ISP have chosen both go down? > > I guess the same applies to domains which you get from Internic... but > it's easier to get Internic to make changes than our ISP. > > Thanks for any future feedback. > > Scot. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)1344 899401 > PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org > or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html > >