glue record

Fri May 29 06:19:03 UTC 2009

Beat me to it.. Bleh.

Though I will admit, this reminds me of a very painful experience when I
got my first dedicated server back in 1999. Death me to BIND. Glad I'm
not a DNS admin :)

//warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Howard [mailto:scott at doc.net.au] 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Anton Zimm
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: glue record

Did you check the "ADDITIONAL SECTION" in what you've pasted below?

  Scott.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Anton Zimm <anton.zimm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking for glue record for ns1.push.mobi so I ask one of the root

> name server.
> It gives me the list of dot mobi authorized name servers.
>
> I'm expecting it to be answered by one of the mobi tld authorized name

> servers, but it's telling me that it delegates the answer to 
> ns1.push.mobi instead. It does not make sense for me because how can I

> ask ns1.push.mobi if I don't know its ip address yet...
> Clue please..?
>
> -----
> az at hollywood:~$ dig @B2.MOBI.AFILIAS-NST.ORG. ns1.push.mobi ....
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ns1.push.mobi.                 IN      A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> push.mobi.              86400   IN      NS      ns1.push.mobi.
> push.mobi.              86400   IN      NS      ns2.push.mobi.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.push.mobi.          86400   IN      A       117.102.248.2
> ns2.push.mobi.          86400   IN      A       117.102.248.3
> -----
>
> best,
> Anton.
>
>