"Dynamic update of glue records "

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Apr 8 20:04:43 UTC 2002


In article <a8sedr$opi at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote:
>
>bind-9 seems to accept adding and removal of NS records 
>
>But sometimes there is a need for a glue-record , assume for
>the discussion that i delegate foo.bar.se to the nameserver
>"ada.foo.bar.se" , then i will need a glue. 
>This glue will be accepted in "bar.se" , but after i have 
>added "foo.bar.se 86400 IN NS ada.foo.bar.se." there is 
>a delegation point at "foo.bar.se."  
>
>Now if one should want another gluerecord for "karl.foo.bar.se." 
>will it be inserted in the "bar.se." zone ? Or will the nameserver 
>see this as "out-of-zone-data" ?
>
>The RFC's don't seem clear at this. Any thoughts ?

It should be permitted, just like it is in a zone file.  If the server
rejects it, I'd call it a bug.

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