[83491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing .com DNS glue records - who to contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Tue Aug 16 17:34:06 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: Matthew Elvey <matthew@elvey.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1124227159.32702.5.camel@localhost>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:28:01 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:19 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:10 -0700, Matthew Elvey wrote:
> > A glue record for a .com domain (nextbus.com) is wrong, and I'm running
> > into a brick wall trying to get it fixed.
>
> The problem is that the A and PTR records for your domain servers don't
> match up. See the "Mismatched glue" section of your dnsreport.
Err, scratch that. I misread your post.
$host 64.164.28.194
194.28.164.64.in-addr.arpa is an alias for \
194.192.28.164.64.in-addr.arpa.
194.192.28.164.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ns.nextbus.com.
Is "194.192.28.164.64.in-addr.arpa" valid?
> I've got the same issue with some domains hosted over at Register.com's
> GPN (Global Partner Network) division. GPN outsources DNS to eNom
> (which is an excellent thing), but the default GPN DNS settings use
> dnsXX.gpn.register.com which has a PTR to dns1.name-services.com. I
> *think* that this is OK per RFC, would really like to hear some expert
> opinions on this however.
I still would like to understand this validity of this however. ;-_
-Jim P.
