On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:46:45AM -0700, Dave Warren wrote: > Mark E. Mallett wrote: > >I still don't thing that the .org roots should be providing those > >'additional answer' hints in this case, nor should clients be relying > >on them (most don't, it seems). But yes, much better now. Thanks > >again. > > > Agreed that these glue records shouldn't exist. Glue should only be > required when a domain's NS are within the domain itself, or when there > is a loop (example.com uses ns[1-2].example.net and example.net uses > ns[1-2].example.com) -- However, I suspect that to avoid loops PIR is > adding extra glue records where it's not strictly required.
And indeed, following up on that thought- it occured to me that it would be best just to go and delete those entries. (They were evidently instantiated by the prior registrant, probably a year or two ago..) There doesn't seem to be any way to remove them though; there's no "remove" button, and simply clearing the field and hitting "modify" gives me an error. mm
