Help with delegation

Michael Barber mikeb at
Sat Jun 11 00:25:07 UTC 2005

I am having a problem researching a domain delegation issue.  Thanking in
advance for any help.
I'm trying to delegate the entire * to a secondary
location which will/should be running dns as
Heres the operative part of my
zone "" {
 type master;
 file "";

Here's my zone file.  I removed the glue record because it was logging an
ignored message in my logs and was not mirring the glue record to the slave.
; ComCity DNS File
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA (
2005061006 ;ComCity Serial
10800  ; refresh
900  ; retry
604800  ; expire
3600)  ; minimum
;glue record for hostingplatform ns
;        86400    IN    A
;        86400    IN    A

One of the hosts under this domain is  When
I do a lookup at, I get this

DNS Lookup: A record
Generated by
How I am searching:
Searching for A record at
[]: Got referral to D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [took 204 ms]
Searching for A record at
D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. []: Got referral to [took
135 ms]
Searching for A record at
[]: Reports that no A records exist. [took 87 ms]

No A records exist for [Neg TTL=3600

Details: (an authoritative nameserver for
says that there are no A records for
The E-mail address in charge of the zone is:
hostmaster at



I have no direct control over the * zone.  Its being run
by someone else. 
Its not working....Is it possible to tell why or what I need to do to fix
Why does report that is authoritative?

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