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Re: Fixing .com DNS glue records - resolved.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Aug 16 23:58:08 2005

Date: 17 Aug 2005 03:57:40 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <43029A66.6040501@elvey.com>
Cc: matthew@elvey.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


>I'm tempted to try making one of the authoritative name servers for a 
>toy domain www.<domain> to see what happens.  Anyone tried it?

$ dnsqr ns abuse.net
2 abuse.net:
78 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 2 abuse.net
answer: abuse.net 251793 NS light.lightlink.com
answer: abuse.net 251793 NS www.abuse.net


> I imagine this would result in slightly faster lookups, though the
> high TTL and propagation make it risky, and not appropriate for high
> availability sites.

Hasn't made much difference that I can see.  I did it to avoid burning
another IP address from my /24.

R's,
John



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