Delegation check failed

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Chris Buxton <chris.p.buxton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
>> I didn't specify the IPs but it found them - that is to say when I input my first DNS server it automatically populated the IP address field.  This was on the iis.se site as I noted in my original post.
>>
>> My read of "glue records" is that they are A records within a zone file for DNS servers that are part of the same domain as the zone being described.
>
> No. Glue exists in the parent zone, 'com' in your case.
>
> Your glue records are correct. Not sure why it would be throwing an error.
>
> $ dig water.com ns @g.gtld-servers.net
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.0-P4 <<>> water.com ns @g.gtld-servers.net
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29994
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;water.com.                     IN      NS
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> water.com.              172800  IN      NS      dswadns1.water.com.
> water.com.              172800  IN      NS      dswadns2.water.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dswadns1.water.com.     172800  IN      A       12.44.84.213
> dswadns2.water.com.     172800  IN      A       12.44.84.214
>
> ;; Query time: 22 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.42.93.30#53(192.42.93.30)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 20 13:21:28 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105
>
> Regards,
> Chris Buxton
> BlueCat Networks

I just did some checks and I think dnscheck is broken. I get the same error for
several different domains that I am pretty confident are NOT broken and have
confirmed the glue for all of them is correct.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com