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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:35:57 +1100 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Marcin Pasek <marcin@v-m.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DNS next level....
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971030083339.524o-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <34574CCE.47DBB38@v-m.com>

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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Marcin Pasek wrote:

> HI, and thanks a lot for all the pointers that I got in setting up a
> primary and secondary DNS server on my system..
> 
> there is one more thing that I need to setup.
> Let say I have a xxxx.com domain set up on  one DNS server and I make
> one of the host  UNIX so I have  unix.xxx.com  NOw here is my question
> how do I setup my DNS so that all setting for unix.xxx.com are located
> at a diffrent DNS server for that subdomain....so that I could setup
> www.unix.xxx.com  and also I could setup MX records and stuff.?

You can just put everything in the one DNS as:

unix		IN 	A	1.2.3.4
www.unix	IN	A	1.2.3.5

Or you can delegate the unix subdomain

unix		IN	NS	dns1.unix.xxx.com.
		IN	NS	dns2.unix.xxx.com.
; glue
dns1.unix	IN	A	1.2.3.4
dns2.unix	IN	A	1.2.3.5


You *MUST* include the glue records.

Danny



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