On 21 Jun 2011, at 00:29, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
I will repeat my assertion. There is no such thing as glue records for the nameservers at the top of the zone within the zone itself be they in-baliwick or not. Glue records live in the parent zone and are there to avoid the catch 22 situation of needing the records to find the records.
I understand "in-bailiwick" to be a property of the name of a nameserver, independent of whether you are looking at the glue or authoritative NS RRs - it is not the same as "in-zone". In-bailiwick nameservers must have glue. But you said ''There is also no such thing as 'in-bailiwick glue for the TLD's DNS servers'.'' I think you are arguing about the meaning and location of glue, whereas I am arguing about the meaning of "in-bailiwick". Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/