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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have hit a very weird issue that I need help me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, I’m trying to delegate a subdomain from my PDNS server to my slaves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have the parent domain delegated without any problems at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Let’s call the domain ‘annoying.com’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can delegate the parent domain annoying.com with no issues. The records look like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| name | type | content |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+------------------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| annoying.com | SOA | ns0.ninefold.com hostmaster.annoying.com 7 10800 3600 604800 3600 |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| annoying.com | NS | ns3.ninefold.com |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| annoying.com | NS | ns4.ninefold.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now i want to create test.anoying.com and delegate that to the same servers as above. So now my records look like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| name | type | content |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+------------------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| annoying.com | SOA | ns0.ninefold.com hostmaster.annoying.com 7 10800 3600 604800 3600 |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| annoying.com | NS | ns3.ninefold.com |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| test.annoying.com | NS | ns3.ninefold.com |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>| test.annoying.com | NS | ns4.ninefold.com |<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+------------------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>But this does not work. In the pdns log file I get errors<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AXFR of domain 'test.annoying.com' initiated by ‘ns3.ninefold.com’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AXFR of domain 'test.annoying.com' failed: not authoritative<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So why can I delegate the parent domain, but not a subdomain?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>