Hi Mike I see the confusion. Take my word for it because it works when I disable the forwards. The other part of the confusion is, it is part of the lines above which are corp.company.com. This will make ns.corp.company.com. david On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Mike Burger wrote: > What I see is an A record for "NS", which would translate to > "NS.company.com". > > You need an A record for "ns.corp", which would then translate to > "ns.corp.company.com". > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, dbrett wrote: > > > The A record for ns.corp is right above the question. > > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, dbrett wrote: > > > > > > > I have run into something very strange I can't figure out how to solve. > > > > > > > > I have a DNS server running RH9 and Bind 9. The problem I am having is > > > > with delegation. At a basic level the delegation is working. The problem > > > > is delegation will only work when forwarding is turned off. > > > > > > > > i.e. > > > > Bind server has domain of "company.com" > > > > it delegates "corp.company.com" to "ns.corp.company.com" > > > > > > > > If forwarding is enabled all queries for "corp.company.com" go to the > > > > forwarding servers. If forwarding is turned off, it works as expected. > > > > > > > > Below is the protion of named.conf and the zone file: > > > > > > > > named.conf: > > > > options { > > > > directory "/var/named"; > > > > forwarders{ 207.181.89.2; > > > > 207.181.89.3; > > > > 207.181.101.5; > > > > 207.181.101.4;}; > > > > allow-transfer{ 192.168.1.25; 192.168.1.100; 192.168.1.101;}; > > > > }; > > > > zone "." { > > > > type hint; > > > > file "named.ca"; > > > > }; > > > > zone "company.com"{ > > > > type slave; > > > > masters {192.168.1.25;}; > > > > file "company.com"; > > > > }; > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > > zone file company.com > > > > > > > > $ORIGIN . > > > > $TTL 43200 ; 12 hours > > > > company.com IN SOA ns01.company.com. > > > > dbrett.company.com. > > > > ( > > > > 2004060320 ; serial > > > > 3600 ; refresh (1 hour) > > > > 900 ; retry (15 minutes) > > > > 1209600 ; expire (2 weeks) > > > > 43200 ; minimum (12 hours) > > > > ) > > > > NS ns02.company.com. > > > > NS ns01.company.com. > > > > > > > > > > > > corp NS ns.corp > > > > $ORIGIN corp.company.com. > > > > NS A 192.168.1.100 > > > > > > > > david > > > > > > I don't see an A record for "ns.corp" with an IP address. > > > -- > > > Mike Burger > > > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > > > > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > > > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > > > > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > > > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a > > > message to: > > > > > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > with a message of: > > > > > > subscribe > > > > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a > message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list