To:
Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@sidn.nl>
Cc:
Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>, Patrick <patrick@gandi.net>, "'ietf-provreg@cafax.se'" <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
"Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jordyn@register.com>
Date:
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:57:20 -0400
In-Reply-To:
<200108171452.f7HEqjw05764@bartok.sidn.nl>
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: host transfers -- actually, out-of-zone-glue
At 4:52 PM +0200 8/17/01, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > A.XXX has name servers NS1.B.YY and NS2.B.YY. > B.YY has name servers NS1.A.XXX and NS2.A.XXX. >This is a basic problem. People should not do things like that. I >have been told that modern versions of nameserver lately don't >accept out of zone glue to prvent cache poisoning. So even if you >put it in your zone file, things stll might not work with such a >configuration. > >In the .nl registry for years we never allowed out of zone glue in >the zonefile. We have only once seen that somebody shot his/her >foot with a configuration like this. This is a good point, and I wasn't intending to suggest that out of zone glue was the solution. The B.YY and A.XXX problem is probably not solvable today, but the if both A and B are in .XXX, then the extremely limited view of what sort of glue should exist that Klaus has been advocating is probably too narrow. Jordyn