Re: seeking pointers on the topic of 'name server registration'

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:25:17PM +0000, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> I've seen that before godaddy as an example has a section at the bottom of the domain information for a "Hosts Summary" which allows you to set glue for the record.  It gives a similar error to the "record must be registered".  Mostly they are just complaining if they can't find glue, and as I understand it's just to enforce nameservers to have glue so they fail less :)

My (limited) understanding is that glue records are important only in the
case where a name server is within domain it's responsible for.

For example, my own domain, where I'm undergoing these machinations:

  $ dig @m.gtld-servers.net. ns numachi.com

  [snip]

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;numachi.com.			IN	NS

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  numachi.com.		172800	IN	NS	away.numachi.com.
  numachi.com.		172800	IN	NS	linode.feoh.org.

  ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
  away.numachi.com.	172800	IN	A	66.228.38.138

The 'ADDITIONAL SECTION' calls out the glue records for
'away.numachi.com.', as it's needed to allow 'numachi.com' to
resolve.

But, there is no glue record for 'linode.feoh.org'.  I don't think
it's neccessary, but it would be nice for performance
reasons.

And, I have no idea who's responsibility it is to generate them.

I don't know if that generation is related to 'name server
registration', and I have no idea what that process is, or if it's
neccessary.

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