Hi Bruce.

Thank's for clearing it up for me.

I was indeed confusing GLUE with HOST.

Your expert guidance is appreciated.

I don't 100% understand everything about the DNS system, even though I use
it every day, But i have a funny feeling i'm going to have to learn a whole
lot more in the near future.

Best regards,
Sean finn
www.ozservers.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin§melbourneit.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:04 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] NetSol and AU nameservers
>
>
>
> Hello Sean,
>
> >
> > In my experience alone, i have found that i cannot delegate,
> > for example, a something.biz domain to an
> > ns1.somethingelse.com.au and ns2.somethingelse.com.au unless
> > i make glue records for ns1.somethingelse.com.au and
> > ns2.somethingelse.com.au
> >
>
> You may be confusing "glue" records with "host" records.
>
> In EPP protocol based registries (including .com.au, .org, .biz, .info),
> there are separate data records for domains, hosts, and contact records.
> To delegate a domain name to a nameserver, requires the existance of the
> host record for that domain name in the registry.  HOWEVER this registry
> host record does not need to contain the IP address (and in most cases
> SHOULDN'T contain the IP address).