Glue at root

[sam]

Any help is appreciated. How can we get a glue record? Should it from the
Registrar of my Domain or the ISP?

Thank you
S

"Tom Sellers" <tsellers at myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:a8gunu$24j at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> Yes, I need glue then because my nameserver will be in my domain. That
> explains some of my ongoing problems that were a mystery to me. Thanks
very
> much for that Barry, Joseph, Len and Simon for the help, usually about
this
> time of day I have do some delegating anyway (chores to my teenage son),
> I'll just have to do a different sort  of delegating right now.
>
>
> "Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
> news:a8fmnb$rm3 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> > In article <a8flt0$rgl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> > Tom Sellers <tsellers at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > >Having said that, may I ask, what are the consequences of not having
> 'Glue'.
> > >Can they be serious? The warning says the behaviour is allowed but may
> slow
> > >it down, is speed the only consequence?
> >
> > You only need glue if the name of the nameserver is in the domain that's
> > being delegated to it, e.g. your domain is yourdomain.com, and its
> > nameservers are ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com.  If you don't
> > have glue, you have a chicken-and-egg problem: in order to look up the
> > addresses of the nameservers, you have to ask one of those nameservers,
> but
> > you can't do that if you don't know their addresses.  Glue records are
> > copies of the A records in the parent domain, so that they'll be
supplied
> > when referrals are given.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> > Genuity, Woburn, MA
> > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
> newsgroups.
> > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
> group.
> >
>
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