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Re: :Lame Name server
From: Len Conrad
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Time: 8:47:32 pm
>"glue at root" - sounds like a gardening tip. :-)
:))
>Really, they probably mean that there's no glue record for your server in
>the parent zone. If you had the tool check "joyworld.com", then I'd guess
>it's talking about "dns12.dion.ne.jp", the second server listed in the
>delegation. In which case, no, there isn't a glue record in the gTLD
>servers - there shouldn't be.
>
>Some people don't get glue records.
R. Scott Perry is Mister www.Declude.com / www.DNSreport.com and very
active in the IMail list that I follow, too.
I've tried to get him, many months ago, to change the wording for these
"missing glue" and "at root" phrases, telling him "missing" was pejorative
and sounded like an error that needed fixing, when it isn't broken, and the
wording is likely to send DNS non-experts on a wild goose chase.
And "at root" is simply wrong altogether, and should really be "in zone
parent for domain.com (the one being reported on)". eg, assuming
joyworld.com is the subject, then the "missing glue" is rather, "absent",
from the ?.gTLD-servers.net, NOT from the "root", ie, ?.root-servers.net.
In fact, I told Scott to drop the "missing glue" aspect of his report
altogether, since not only is his phrasing misleading, the glue issue is
moot. That's just the way DNS works (no need to comment on it), and even
if it was "broken", the child domain (being DNSreport-ed on) can't do
anything about "problems" in its parent zone, anyway.
Len
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