On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:07 AM, Niall O'Reilly <niall.orei...@ucd.ie> wrote: > In http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hoffman-dns-terminology-02.txt, > "glue" is defined as follows. > > Glue records -- Resource records which are not part of the > authoritative data, and are address resource records for the servers > listed in the message. They contain data that allows access to name > servers for subzones. (Definition from RFC 1034, section 4.2.1) > > Reference to "the message" seems to be a distraction here. The > cited source defines (and motivates) glue records, in a section > which specifies "[t]he data that describes a zone", as follows > > [...] a zone contains "glue" RRs which are not > part of the authoritative data, and are address RRs for the servers. > These RRs are only necessary if the name server's name is "below" the > cut, and are only used as part of a referral response. > > I think that placing the definition of glue in the scope of "the > message" rather than in that of the zone data is likely to lead to > confusion.
Quite right. We'll fix this in the next draft. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
