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From: BORKI@zug.use.ch  (Reto Burkhalter)
Subject: Re: DNS QUESTION
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Date: Sat,  6 Apr 96   5:43:20 GMT
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>> J Wunsch 
>> 04.04.1996 
 
 
JW> broman@detour.com (Bill Roman) writes: 
JW> >  
JW> > How can I make our NameServer respond Authortatively for a domain name 
JW> > owned by someone else? 
JW>  
JW> Declare it to be a primary (ugly!), or a secondary (better).  The 
JW> latter means that it will regularly check the primary for a changed 
JW> SOA record, and suck the entire zone over if the serial number has 
JW> been bumped at the primary. 
 
That's not enogh: The owner of the domain has to delegate the 
authority to you (He has to add an ' IN NS ' entry and point 
to you as an authoritve nameserver. 
 
 
Reto