Conflicting glue records?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jan 8 05:09:46 UTC 2009


In article <gk3r45$c00$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Dawn Connelly" <dawn.connelly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Each registrars push the information that they have. So if you have
> apples.com with an NS record of ns1.dns.com==137.161.0.1 and
> oranges.com with a NS record of ns1.dns.com=137.161.0.2, when people
> query for apples, they will get the .1 address and when they query for
> oranges.com they will get the .2 address. Inversely if apples.com has
> an ns record of ns1.apples.com and oranges.com has an NS record of
> ns1.oranges.com but they both resolve to the same IP address, the
> requester will see the corresponding name.

The above makes no sense.  There's only one set of COM servers, and they 
can only have one set of glue records.

Also, even though there are many registrars, there's only one registry 
that they all update.

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Milo Hyson <milo at cyberlifelabs.com> wrote:
> > If different registrars contain different host records for the same name
> > server, what glue records are established in the root servers? Suppose two
> > domains at different registrars both list ns1.mydomain.com as a nameserver
> > but each gives a different IP. Are the results undefined? Is there some rule
> > that is followed to resolve the conflict?
> >
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