DNS Tracing

[Mathias Körber]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:05 AM
> To: Mathias Körber
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: DNS Tracing
>
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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:05:38PM +0800, Mathias Körber wrote:
> > This is the reason I tried coming up with a method to administratively
> > distinguish A records which are inside a zone because of GLUE from those
> > there for other reasons (see my now defunct draft
> > draft-koerber-dnsind-glue-00.txt,
> > which I did not pursue for lack of interest/support.
> > I do not think that BIND's built in rules are sufficient to distinguish
> > between glue and regular A records. For one thing, they only help during
> > actual lookups. Something that clearly shows a record id
> supposed to be GLUE
> > is needed at the administrative level.
> >
> > just my 2 cents
> >
> > -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar --
> > -- Type: application/octet-stream
> > -- File: draft-koerber-dnsind-glue-00.txt.url
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> Listar strips out attachments - thank God for that!  But in this case,
> it means that your draft was detached.  Do you have a URL where you
> keep it publicly available?

I hadonly intended to 'paste' the URL into my mail, but OL2000 turned
that into an attachment :-( So I thought it only attached the URL (for
whatever purpose)...

Anyway, it's at:

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-koerber-dnsind-glue-00.txt
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> Also, ISTM that "glueness" is a matter of intent more than anything
> else.  I suppose that a record that defines a name in a delegated
> subdomain is almost surely glue.  But what about a name X.A.B.C.com
> which is defined in C.com, but the delegation to A.B.C.com doesn't
> occur until B.C.com.  ;-}  Did you have some proposal for how to
> reliably detect "glueness"?\

I had a proposal to mark glueness in the zone by using a different
RR from A in the zonefile. It could then be returned (as an A record!)
only in the Additional Section, while records which were defined as A
(if present) would be returned i the Answer Section as before...

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