Re: NS delegation of the main domain.

[John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>]

>What I would like to happen is I want www.domain.com and domain.com to
>be delegated to  the nameservers on someotherdomain.com -- but i want
>anything under domain.com, to be handled by the nameservers on
>domain.com

That's not how delegation works.  When you delgate a name, you
delegate that name and everything below it. And even if you wanted to
redelegate the whole zone, you can't, that's a lame delegation.

If you just want to let someeone else update the addresses for
www.domain.com, you can use a CNAME, but a CNAME for domain.com
has the same problem as delegation, it covers everything below it.

In a case like this I usually write a little perl or shell script that
I run once or twice a day that picks up the records I need from the
other server appends them to my local data file, and regnerate the
cdb for tinydns.

R's,
John