What is DNS subdomain delegation?

Subdomain delegation allows different individuals, teams, or organizations to manage different subdomains of a site. DNS delegation is not possible for Cloudflare domains on a CNAME setup.

What is DNS delegation record?

A delegation is a record in a parent zone that lists a name server that is authoritative for the zone in the next level of the hierarchy. Delegations make it possible for servers in one zone to refer clients to servers in other zones.

How do you do subdomain delegation?

If you prefer, you can also delegate a subdomain using Azure PowerShell.

1. Prerequisites. To delegate an Azure DNS subdomain, you must first delegate your public domain to Azure DNS.
2. Create a zone for your subdomain.
3. Note the name servers.
4. Create a test record.
5. Create an NS record.
6. Test the delegation.
7. Next steps.

Do I need a DNS record for a subdomain?

4 Answers. It depends on whether you want to delegate hosting the subdomain off to a different DNS server (or to the same server, but in a different zone file). You delegate a zone when you want some other entity to control it, such as a different IT department or organization. If you do, then you need NS records.

How to create DNS zone for subdomain?

Create a zone for your subdomain From the Azure portal, select Create a resource. In the search box, type DNS, and select DNS zone. Select Create. In the Create DNS zone pane, type engineering.contoso.com in the Name text box. Select the resource group for your zone. Click Create. After the deployment succeeds, go to the new zone.

Does subdomain have its own DNS entry?

Plesk allows each subdomain to have its own DNS zone. These subdomain zones are useful if you wish to specify a custom name server for a particular subdomain or shorten the number of domain DNS records by rearranging them to subordinate zones.

What’s DNS name devolution?

A: DNS name devolution is a built-in feature of the Windows DNS Client. Users of Active Directory (AD)-joined computers can use DNS name devolution to connect to resources using an unqualified name, such as mailserver1, instead of using a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), such as mailserver1.emea.mydomain.net.

How do DNS delegation Records work?

Delegation records transfer name resolution authority and provide correct referral to other DNS servers and clients of the new servers that are being made authoritative for the new zone. If you are using Active Directory-integrated DNS, these DNS servers might also be the domain controllers for that domain.