2011/6/19 David Miller <dmil...@tiggee.com>: > > In the particular case of the OP - example.net. has name servers under > example.com. > > To make lookups for records under example.net., resolvers walk the tree from > "." to "net." and get NS records - ns1.example.com. and ns2.example.com. > > You can't insert glue records into net. for name servers that exist under > com., so now resolvers walk the tree from "." to "com." to get the name > servers for example.com. which in the OP's case are - GoDaddy name servers. > > If there are no glue records in com. for ns1.example.com. and > ns2.example.com., then resolvers will just ask the authoritative name > servers for example.com. (which in the OP's case are - GoDaddy name servers) > for the A/AAAA records for ns1.example.com. and ns2.example.com. If the > GoDaddy name servers provide A/AAAA records for ns1.example.com. and > ns2.example.com., then resolution works and everyone is happy. > > Glue is only required if that is the only way to traverse the tree to get to > the IP addresses for the name servers for a domain. >
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
