On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:31:31AM -0800, Robert L Mathews wrote:
>
> What you're sort of saying is "I know that in the general case,
> nameserver hosts need to be updated at the respective registry when
> their IP address changes, but I happen to know that there is something
> about these three nameserver hosts which should cause the registry to
> never announce glue records, and I therefore don't want to bother
> updating them at the registry when they change".
Yes indeed!
Except that it's not only that I happen to know it, I tried hard
to arrange it that way.
> That's dangerous,
> really: even if the registry didn't hand out undesirable glue records in
> the case of geezer.org, you'd be in trouble if you ever changed ispc.org
> to use a ns[0-9].ispc.org nameserver. The registry *would* then have to
> hand out glue records, and they would be wrong unless you had remembered
> to fix them.
OK, I see that. And with a little thought, I can understand that it's
hard for the registry to be able to figure out whether there's any
self-dependency or loops, and so, as you say:
> So even if you don't expect the .org registry to hand out glue records
> for your nameserver hosts, I think you should still make sure that the
> IP address on file for that host at the registry is correct. That way
> everything always works.
that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks Robert and Dave for the excellent help and education.
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