Re: [DNSOP] DNS Terminology: Glue

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:07 AM, Niall O'Reilly <[e-mail]> 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