Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Wed, 30 May 2001 11:03:36 +0200 (CEST)
    From:        Shane Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Message-ID:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

  | Remember that registries are concerned with address to name mapping, and
  | this is a name to address mapping - one that is already performed
  | elsewhere.

This has nothing to do with anything.   Anyone delegating pieces of the
DNS tree (whether for profit, as a public service, or just to other parts
of their own organisation) ought to be doing it properly.   And that
includes inserting glue records whenever they are required.

But ...

  | IIRC, I asked for community input about this issue when I was at ARIN,
  | and received no feedback - my guess is that the Internet at large
  | doesn't consider it an important issue.

this doesn't surprise me at all.

kre