GTLD servers still promoting glue to answer :-(

[Chris Thompson]

On Oct 25 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:14:42PM +1100,
> Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote 
> a message of 38 lines which said:
>
>> 	Because the Atlas servers are based on old code and because
>> 	there are delegations that only work in COM and NET because
>> 	the servers promote glue to answer.
>
>At the last OARC <http://www.dns-oarc.net/> meeting in Ottawa
>(september 2008), Matt Larson (Verisign) announced that ".com" and
>".net" name servers will "soon" change to the proper behaviour (this
>triggered a lot of applause.

As the recent thread ("can't see nameserver externally") reminds us
-- for edu rather than com/net, but there can't really be a
difference, can there? the nameservers are just a subset --
glue promotion is still happening. One has to wonder what "soon"
means,

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk