Re: [webmin-l] DNS with webmin - Delegating Subdomain?

[Kris D. <kd...@vi...>]

Matt wrote:
> Understood, if I want to deligate mydomain.com... however I want to
> deligate secondary.mydomain.com to ns5.mydomain.com.. that is .. I am
> not deligating mydomain.com to ns5, but rather secondary.mydomain.com
> to ns5.

Actually, what Jamie said is correct;  rather than an NS record that
looks like this:

@	IN	NS	ns5.mydomain.com.

or

mydomain.com.	IN	NS	ns5.mydomain.com.

(which create NS records for mydomain.com) what he suggested would
create a record like this:

secondary	IN	NS	ns5.mydomain.com.

(Actually, it appears Webmin fully qualifies the delegated zone:
secondary.mydomain.com.	IN	NS	ns5.mydomain.com.
I'm not certain whether that's good or bad in the long run - it would
cause Weirdness on some of my zones.)

> On 10/27/06, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
>> Create an NS record in mydomain.com named secondary, with ns5.mydomain.com
>> as the name server.

To rephrase this a bit, specific to Webmin:

Create an NS record with "Zone Name" as the zone you want to delegate
(either the partial name secondary, or the fully-qualified
secondary.mydomain.com. [note the trailing dot!]), name server as the
FQDN of the nameserver you want.

-kgd