[106428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jul 28 15:54:22 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:52:47 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A9F3D0@pascal.zaphodb.org>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> As you pointed out, the protocol, if properly implemented, addresses
> this.
>
> There should always be Glue (A records for the NS) in a delegation. RFC
> 1034 even specifies this:
>
> 4.2.2 <snip>
> As the last installation step, the delegation NS RRs and glue RRs
> necessary to make the delegation effective should be added to the parent
> zone. The administrators of both zones should insure that the NS and
> glue RRs which mark both sides of the cut are consistent and remain so.
> </snip>
A probably important distinction:
That's not the protocol, that's the specified implementation framework
of the protocol. In general, DNS still works if you screw that up,
which is why it's so often screwed up.
Cheers,
-- jra
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