Sunday, Sunday, April 21, 2002, 1:54:08 AM, Robert L Mathews wrote: > At 4/21/02 12:07 AM, William X Walsh wrote:
>>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. > Just so this isn't misleading if taken out of context, you still need > (and get) glue records in ccTLDs if the nameservers are under the same > ccTLD, of course. For example: > $ dig demon.co.uk @ns1.nic.uk. ns > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > demon.co.uk. 14400 IN NS ns2.demon.net. > demon.co.uk. 14400 IN NS ns0.demon.co.uk. > demon.co.uk. 14400 IN NS ns1.demon.co.uk. > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > ns0.demon.co.uk. 14400 IN A 158.152.1.65 > ns1.demon.co.uk. 14400 IN A 158.152.1.193 But only in the uk zone, it doesn't need to exist in the com/net/org/info/biz/etc zones. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
