Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)
Jonathan McKeown
j.mckeown at ru.ac.za
Fri Nov 5 08:27:43 UTC 2010
On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote:
> But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do;
> eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au so DNS reports always
> whinge about lack of glue
They should be whingeing about lack of clue (their own) unless I'm horribly
wrong about how DNS works.
When a nameserver delegates a zone, it's not responsible for any of that
zone's records any more, with two exceptions. It provides NS records to
indicate which nameservers /are/ responsible, and it retains responsibility
for the A records of nameservers inside the zone - and only those
nameservers. (That's glue.)
There's no way a .com nameserver should be providing A records for hosts in
the .au zone.
> nonetheless it works, though only after a hunt down through the .au
> servers, until cached.
Yes, this is exactly what /should/ happen. Only the .au servers (or servers
they delegate to) are authoritative for hosts in the .au zone.
Jonathan
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