Re: [dnsext] Failure to add glue MUST cause TC to be set.

doesn't that cause some tension - two zones being authoritative for the
same data?  and i'm not fully convinced that stripping out recursion is
a n'cessy evil.

--bill

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:20:25PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> we also need to require that the parent zone contain the addresses of
> child glue, since otherwise the parent authority must also be recursive
> which is something i think we're trying to move away from.
> 
> re:
> 
> > We need to make it clear that adding address records here (RFC 1034,
> > Section 4.3.2, step 3b) is not optional unlike step 6 where they are
> > optional.
> > 
> >          b. If a match would take us out of the authoritative data,
> >             we have a referral.  This happens when we encounter a
> >             node with NS RRs marking cuts along the bottom of a
> >             zone.
> > 
> >             Copy the NS RRs for the subzone into the authority
> >             section of the reply.  Put whatever addresses are
> >             available into the additional section, using glue RRs
> >             if the addresses are not available from authoritative
> >             data or the cache.  Go to step 4.
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