Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <548223dd.2050...@mail.ru>, Alexei Malinin writes: > On 12/05/14 23:33, Mark Andrews wrote: > > ... > > With all this said a RFC 2317 parent really should let their zone > > be transfered as the child zone administrator needs a local copy > > of the zone for when their external link goe

Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Alexei Malinin
On 12/05/14 23:33, Mark Andrews wrote: > ... > With all this said a RFC 2317 parent really should let their zone > be transfered as the child zone administrator needs a local copy > of the zone for when their external link goes down. If they do not > have a local copy then reverse lookups will fai

Re: Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Casey Deccio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > There are other cases where glue is necessary. RFC 1034 unfortunately > does not list them. It only lists the most obvious case. > > Good point. Of course, the general principle is to avoid cyclic dependencies and simplify/minimize your r

Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Casey Deccio writes: > > Hi Alexei, > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Alexei Malinin > wrote: > > > Thank you for the explanation. > > > > I'm sorry for the misleading Subject of this thread, of course I meant > > "delegation NS records". > > > > > No problem. I knew what you

Re: Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Casey Deccio writes: > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > > > I have 3 secondaries run by other domains. This was to give me some > > geo-diversity. How do I create glue records for them? My registrar only > > lets me create glue records within my do

Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Casey Deccio
Hi Alexei, On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Alexei Malinin wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. > > I'm sorry for the misleading Subject of this thread, of course I meant > "delegation NS records". > > No problem. I knew what you meant :) > I understand from your reply that there are no tec

Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Alexei Malinin
Hi Casey. Thank you for the explanation. I'm sorry for the misleading Subject of this thread, of course I meant "delegation NS records". I understand from your reply that there are no technical means, tools, etc for verifying delegation NS records in the parent zone if the child and parent zone

Re: Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Casey Deccio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 12/05/2014 12:30 PM, Casey Deccio wrote: > > Short answer: you don't need, nor should you configure glue, for the > servers run by the other domains. > > > It would be nice, then, if all these DNS tool sites would know this and > not

Re: Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/05/2014 12:30 PM, Casey Deccio wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: I have 3 secondaries run by other domains. This was to give me some geo-diversity. How do I create glue records for them? My registrar only lets me

Re: Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Casey Deccio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have 3 secondaries run by other domains. This was to give me some > geo-diversity. How do I create glue records for them? My registrar only > lets me create glue records within my domain (the web form pre-provides the > domain part o

Glue records for secondary NS

2014-12-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just found out that I had old garbage in my rgistrar setup for my domain. To wit, an NS server that has not been an NS server for years. And now that I use that host name for another usage on another address, it was giving lots of problems. My bad, I should have caught this when I moved Re

Re: DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Casey Deccio
Hi Alexei, On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Alexei Malinin wrote: > I would like to resolve this problem: > - I have a child DNS zone served by my ISP slave name server; > - the parent zone is served by my ISP master name server; > - the question is - how and with what tools (dig, host, nslookup

DNS: how to verify glue NS records?

2014-12-05 Thread Alexei Malinin
Hello. I would like to resolve this problem: - I have a child DNS zone served by my ISP slave name server; - the parent zone is served by my ISP master name server; - the question is - how and with what tools (dig, host, nslookup, or maybe C or Perl libs) can I verify the NS glue records in the pa