Friday, Friday, April 19, 2002, 1:00:31 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:

> Is there a reason why we still have to create host records and yet when
> we do so with a ccTLD domain (a .uk in my case) no glue records are
> added to the zone file? This leads to the situation whereby if one wants
> all domains to have glue with them you have to setup your nameservers
> under a gTLD. This would seem to defeat the purpose of having host
> records in the first place - why are they still around in this somewhat
> broken form? (I'm told ccTLD NS used to get glue added.)

> Anyone able to shed any light on this?

There is no need for glue to be added now that the gtld zones are not
served from the same servers as the root zones.

Actually, it would be considered broken dns to do so.

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