Re: NS records for subzone cause BIND 9 failures

Kurt Boyack wrote:

>When a parent zone has subzone data in it, NS records for the subzone
>will cause BIND 9 servers to fail to resolve any of the subzone's
>data. The problem does not exist with 8.2.3, but does with 9.2.1 and
>9.3.0.
>
Well, it's not a "problem"; it's the way DNS is supposed to work. When
you delegate a zone to other nameservers, then those nameservers own the
data in the zone, not you. The only exceptions are so-called "glue"
records describing the nameservers for the child zone. Ordinary records,
like A records which are not associated with nameservers, MX records and
so forth, belong to the "closest enclosing zone", i.e. the child (or
"child-most") zone.


- Kevin