Re: NS delegation of the main domain.

["Zachary Denison" <zacharydenison@gmail.com>]

Yeah I cant do that in this case because the other NS servers are load
balancing servers and need to provide on the fly responses.  Hmm so
there is no way to delegate a name but not anything underneath it.

On 23 Mar 2007 01:03:01 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> >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