Glue Records for TLDs

[James Raftery]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:13:47AM +0700, Stefan Probst wrote:
> according to my little understanding, you need "glue records" in the
> parent's zone, if you want an authoritative NS having a host name inside
> the domain it is serving:

Yep - exactly right.

> On the other side, the root servers are not authoritative (or something
> like that), but are always only referring to another name servers, which
> might mean, that they do not have "glue records".

The root servers are authoritative for the root zone! The root zone is
the top of the heirarchy and includes the delegations to COM, ORG, DE,
AU and every other TLD. The root zone includes glue records for every
nameserver it delegates a TLD to.

> Which would mean again, that an authoritative name server for a TLD
> cannnot be in the form of "ns.TLD" (with "TLD" being the domain it is
> supposed to be authoritative for).

It can, and many are.

Regards,

james
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