--On Friday, July 31, 2009 4:54 PM +0530 Gopinath Achari <gopinath at signal-networks.com> wrote: > i have configured a Master DNS server, i have also created records to > delegate a zone to child dns server But when named service is started it > says > > Jul 31 14:33:30 localhost named[21581]: dns.zone:9: ignoring out-of-zone > data (child.dns.com) <http://www.google.com/search?q=ignoring+out+of+zone+data> At a guess, from looking at a few hits from that search, you need an origin statement and don't want a fully-qualified name for the child NS record.