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BIND - delegate a sub domain for a zone.

BIND - delegate a sub domain for a zone

The scenario:

  • DNS zone myzone.com defined in BIND.
  • Authoritative name server at 123.16.123.1.
  • Subzone sub.myzone.com with an authoritative name server at 123.16.123.10.
  • Wishing to forward sub-zone to authoritative name server.

Config

$ORIGIN myzone.com.
$TTL 1D
@ IN SOA ns1.myzone.com. hostmaster.myzone.com. (
  2015010100 ; serial
  21600      ; refresh
  3600       ; retry
  604800     ; expire
  86400 )    ; minimum TTL
;
@       IN  NS  ns1
ns1     IN  A   123.16.123.1  ; glue record
ns1sub  IN  A   123.16.123.10 ; glue record
;
;
$ORIGIN sub.myzone.com.
$TTL 1D
@ IN NS ns1sub.myzone.com.

How it works

  • Resolver asks for answer to foo.sub.myzone.com from name server.
  • Via sub.myzone.com zone, is given answer of ns1sub.myzone.com as the authoritative name server.
  • Resolver able to resolve IP address of 123.16.123.10 for ns1sub.myzone.com via parent zone A "glue" record.
  • Now resend original query of foo.sub.myzone.com to nameserver server at 123.16.123.10.
  • All done.

Reference

@dominusceo
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~]# named-checkzone -D myzone.com /tmp/test
zone myzone.com/IN: loaded serial 2015010100
myzone.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.myzone.com. hostmaster.myzone.com. 2015010100 21600 3600 604800 86400
myzone.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.myzone.com.
ns1.myzone.com. 86400 IN A 123.16.123.1
ns1sub.myzone.com. 86400 IN A 123.16.123.10
sub.myzone.com. 86400 IN NS ns1sub.myzone.com.
OK
[root@provider ~]#

@IreshMM
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IreshMM commented Dec 23, 2022

How do you do the same thing but keep the subdomain nameserver within the subdomain?

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