Search Again: Re: Secondary domain as zone? From: John May Date: Friday, January 14, 2005 Time: 12:02:09 pm Cool - thanks Chris! - John >That's not a secondary domain, it's a subdomain. And yes, a >subdomain can be separated into its own zone. > >Create one or more NS records in pointinspace.com, like this: > >name.pointinspace.com. NS some.name.server. > >(You can just enter "name" for the name, rather than the whole >thing; QuickDNS will fill in the rest of the name.) > >If the name servers for the subzone have names in the subzone, then >you'll also need glue records for them (but I'm guessing you won't >need this). Here's an example of one server that needs a glue record >and another that does not: > >name.pointinspace.com. NS ns1.pointinspace.com. >name.pointinspace.com. NS ns.name.pointinspace.com. >ns.name.pointinspace.com. A 192.168.0.1 > >Once you have the necessary records in pointinspace.com, create the >new zone name.pointinspace.com. Make sure it has the exact same NS >and A records. > >Chris Buxton >Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy > >At 9:07 AM -0500 1/14/05, John May wrote: >>Is it legitimate to make a secondary domain, ala >>name.pointinspace.com, a separate zone while having the primary >>domain, ala pointinspace.com, its own zone? >> >> - John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com Professional Lasso / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting

Messages In This Thread: Secondary domain as zone? by John May on Jan 14, 2005 at 6:07:25 am Re: Secondary domain as zone? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 14, 2005 at 11:49:01 am Re: Secondary domain as zone? by John May on Jan 14, 2005 at 12:02:09 pm