Glue record miunderstanding

[Scott Haneda]

>> Yeah, I just ran a few queries and can't figure out what exactly it's
>> complaining about.
>>
>> Matt
>
> It's making a observation ("i" in a blue circle) that there were
> not additional records for ns1.nacio.com being returned by
> ns1.hostwizard.com presumable because ns1.hostwizard.com doesn't
> serve the zone that contains ns1.nacio.com.  There is nothing wrong
> with this.  These records are NOT GLUE records.  Only parent servers
> return GLUE records.
>
> That being said there would be a error condition if the address
> (A/AAAA) record for ns1.hostwizard.com didn't exist except as glue.
> The way to check for that is to make a query for ns1.hostwizard.com
> and follow all the delegations until you get to the zone that serves
> ns1.hostwizard.com.
>
> Modern versions of named attempt to detect glue only delegations
> and refuse to load zones that contain have them.


Thank you for the explanation Mark.  Also I was not aware that newer  
versions of named would refuse to load zones that were in error of  
glue only.  This is good to know.  Thank you.
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