question regarding "glue domains"

[John MacKenzie]

The Faq referred to in the error for 1and1 reads :

What is a Glue Domain? 

If your Name Server is in the same zone as your domain it is called a
Glue Domain.
A glue record is an A Record that specifies the address of the server.

For example, if the NameServer(DNS) for domain-of-your-choice.com was 
ns.domain-of-your-choice.com then the NS record would look like this,
but you will 
also need to have the following A record. 

domain-of-your-choice.com  IN    NS     ns.domain-of-your-choice.com 
ns.domain-of-your-choice.com    IN    A      217.160.226.82

To do this, please create a subdomain "ns.domain-of-your-choice.com" and
assign an 
IP Address to it. Once the IP Address has propogated you can assign 
"ns.domain-of-your-choice.com" as the DNS for your domain 
"domain-of-your-choice.com". 

Barry Margolin, in reply to my original post,  refers to the PARENT
zone. Is this parent zone , the mydomain zone?

Or is it something more? 

Currently my Primary and secondary hosts are the valueweb servers
ns1/ns2.primarydns.com

And the Ns1.mydomain record is in the mydomain zone on those servers.

I apologise for my ignorance , but the prior dns work I have done always
involved maintaining an already in place nameserver, and my last time
doing anything with DNS was over 6 years ago. 

The reason I need to start my own now is that valuweb refuse to create
spf records for my domain(s)

- John



 

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of John MacKenzie
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:04 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: question regarding "glue domains"


Hi there, 

I have my domains registered through 1and1 , and curently have my dns
hosted with valueweb. 

I had valueweb create a record for ns1.mydomain about 30 hours ago, and
i can ping it from my home machine.

however when I try to change my primary to ns1.mydomain with 1and1, I am
told :

Subdomains of the original domainname as name servers for the original
domainname need a fixed IP! Please refer to the FAQ (keyword: Glue
domain)!

Surely this is what i accomplished by having valueweb create th entry on
their primary?

Is it possibly due to the address not propagating fully yet?


also, I read somewhere that the reverse ip lookup MUST say ns1.mydomain

is this true?

Basically I'm wondering is there something I don't know about that i
have failed to do in order to make this happen. 

Thanks
- John


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