[Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Yves Goergen
Hi, what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already know what nameserver to ask for the domain. Why would the nameserver reply with I am the one to ask for that domain if it can only say that when being

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Maik Zumstrull
Yves Goergen wrote: what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already know what nameserver to ask for the domain. Why would the nameserver reply with I am the one to ask for that domain if it can only say

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Yves Goergen
In the case where I have the zone example.com with a number of subdomains, I then have the example.com record in the domains table (with the MySQL backend) and an A record for each domain and subdomain in the records table. Also there's one SOA record for the zone and maybe MX records for each

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Maik Zumstrull
Yves Goergen wrote: What records would I now add with NS type? One for every nameserver that handles the zone domain, or also for each subdomain? NS records are only supposed to exist on zone apex names. domains: example.com MASTER records: example.com SOA ... records: example.com A