DNS Tracing

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:05:38PM +0800, Mathias Körber wrote:
> This is the reason I tried coming up with a method to administratively
> distinguish A records which are inside a zone because of GLUE from those
> there for other reasons (see my now defunct draft
> draft-koerber-dnsind-glue-00.txt,
> which I did not pursue for lack of interest/support.
> I do not think that BIND's built in rules are sufficient to distinguish
> between glue and regular A records. For one thing, they only help during
> actual lookups. Something that clearly shows a record id supposed to be GLUE
> is needed at the administrative level.
> 
> just my 2 cents
> 
> -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar --
> -- Type: application/octet-stream
> -- File: draft-koerber-dnsind-glue-00.txt.url

Listar strips out attachments - thank God for that!  But in this case,
it means that your draft was detached.  Do you have a URL where you
keep it publicly available?

Also, ISTM that "glueness" is a matter of intent more than anything
else.  I suppose that a record that defines a name in a delegated
subdomain is almost surely glue.  But what about a name X.A.B.C.com
which is defined in C.com, but the delegation to A.B.C.com doesn't
occur until B.C.com.  ;-}  Did you have some proposal for how to
reliably detect "glueness"?

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