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[Brad Knowles]

At 5:15 PM +0000 9/12/01, Barry Margolin wrote:

>  Delegation records point to hostnames, not IP addresses.  You could
>  delegate to a hostname administered by a dynamic DNS service.  As long as
>  the hostname isn't in the domain being delegated, the parent domain doesn't
>  need glue records.

	Technically, this is correct.  However, this breaks down in most 
cases, because the owners of example.com are going to register their 
nameservers with one of the .com gTLD Registrars, and those delegated 
servers are most likely going to be within the .com gTLD themselves.

>  Unfortunately, to simplify database administration, I think most registrars
>  require you to supply the IP address of each nameserver along with the
>  hostname.

	As a practical matter, I don't really see any alternative.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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