DNS for subdomains
This question assumes I am doing all the DNS manually and that the domain in question is not the one associated with the server (i.e. not the automatic Alabanza system).
Suppose I own domain.com and have it on my name servers.
I want to give a customer theirname.domain.com
I can go into the DNS records for domain.com and set up an A record to point to their sites IP address, but how do I delegate the DNS so they have their own zone file with an MX record so they can receive e-mail at that subdomain?
I could set up a zone file for theirname.domain.com but that would need to be tied to the record for domain.com.
How do you do that?
The reason for the question is that I own a few good generic word domain names that people often express interest in getting subdomains off and I thought I could give away these subdomains as a marketing ploy.
People could just select a domain from a drop down box on the hosting order form and type in their chosen subdomain.
I know there are ways of doing it with wildcards etc, but I need to do it properly with full DNS.
Any ideas?
Gordon
