On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > I didn't specify the IPs but it found them - that is to say when I input my > first DNS server it automatically populated the IP address field. This was > on the iis.se site as I noted in my original post. > > My read of "glue records" is that they are A records within a zone file for > DNS servers that are part of the same domain as the zone being described.
No. Glue exists in the parent zone, 'com' in your case. Your glue records are correct. Not sure why it would be throwing an error. $ dig water.com ns @g.gtld-servers.net ; <<>> DiG 9.8.0-P4 <<>> water.com ns @g.gtld-servers.net ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29994 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;water.com. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: water.com. 172800 IN NS dswadns1.water.com. water.com. 172800 IN NS dswadns2.water.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dswadns1.water.com. 172800 IN A 12.44.84.213 dswadns2.water.com. 172800 IN A 12.44.84.214 ;; Query time: 22 msec ;; SERVER: 192.42.93.30#53(192.42.93.30) ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 20 13:21:28 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105 Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks _______________________________________________ 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