Thanks to all of you for the great advice and insights! Everything is working now, it was a combination of different issues and the advice i received was invaluable to solving the issues.
Thanks again! dalton On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) <and...@aernet.ru> wrote: > Hi Dalton, > > > Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:00 -0700 dalton stickney wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> I have set up a simple bind config to test this. I am very obviously >> missing something simple here, but i can't figure out what it is for >> some reason. >> I am trying to delegate name servers for the subdomain >> sccnj04.example.com to ns sip.example.com. >> >> When i dig i get no error, but also no answer: >> >> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> ns >> sccnj04.example.com @ns1 >> ;; global options: printcmd >> ;; Got answer: >> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8850 >> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: >> 0 >> >> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >> ;sccnj04.example.com. IN NS >> >> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: >> example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. >> hostmaster.example.com. >> 2011052405 3600 900 864000 86400 >> >> ;; Query time: 0 msec >> ;; SERVER: 10.1.0.8#53(10.1.0.8) >> ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 13:08:03 2011 >> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 88 >> >> >> Here is my simple config: >> >> named.conf >> >> >> options { >> directory "/var/named"; >> version "Nope."; >> }; >> >> zone "example.com" in { >> type master; >> file "example.com"; >> }; >> >> Here is the zone file: >> >> $TTL 86400 >> >> ; Start of Authority >> example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. > ( >> 2011052405 ; Serial >> 3600 ; Refresh >> 900 ; Retry >> 864000 ; Expire >> 86400 ; Min TTL >> ) >> ; Host >> >> sip.example.com. IN A 10.1.0.8 >> ; Nameserver >> example.com. IN NS ns1.example.com. >> >> $ORIGIN sccnj04.example.com. >> sccnj04 IN NS sip.example.com. > ^^^^^^^^^ > You current $ORIGIN is sccnj04.example.com, so the non-FQDN label > "sccnj04" at the line above would be sccnj04.sccnj04.example.com when > converted to FQDN. > > > -- > > Yours sincerely, > > Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) http://www.andris.name/ > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users