On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:00:34AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > If there is a well-accepted name for "address records that come with glue > records but are not actually glue records", we can add it, but I am > hesitant for this document becoming a list of things observed in the wild > that don't already have names. > > FWIW, what we tentatively have for the next draft is: > > Glue records -- Resource records which are not part of the > authoritative data [for a zone], and are address resource records for > the servers [in a subzone]. 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. (Definition from RFC 1034, section 4.2.1)
Given the amount of discussion this topic has generated, and the number of ways I've seen the word used in the past (and, in fact, have used it myself when speaking imprecisely), a discursive paragraph about common misuses might be helpful. Like: The term "glue" is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to other resource records in a parent zone that are related to a delegation, such as address records included with a referral which are not strictly necessary due to the server's domain name falling below the zone cut, the authoritative delegation (NS), or the delegation signer (DS). This could help newcomers to the DNS to understand what they're reading when they encounter terms like "NS glue", but it still stakes out a clear definition of the word. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop