[Gllug] DNS glue records

[Robert McKay]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Robert McKay <robert at mckay.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:34 PM, - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > To avoid circular dependencies, DNS uses glue records, so that I can
>  >  have my nameservers under my domain without problems. That's fine. But
>  >  does anyone know the process by which the glue records are created?
>  >  Who do I need to contact to tell them that I need a glue record for my
>  >  nameservers? Is it something I can do myself? The immediate need is
>  >  for a .com domain (although I'm looking to later do the same with my
>  >  .co.uk domains, too).
>
>  Your register nameservers in your account with your registrar that
>  holds the domain you want to create nameservers in. Look for "create a
>  nameserver" or something along those lines.

On a related topic, does anyone know of any registrars doing IPv6 glue?

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to register an IPv6 nameserver so I
could play around with going IPv6 only (well sortof.. I'm using 6to4
[3]).

I have accounts at a few different registrars but none of them seemed
to allow entering an IPv6 address even although the verisign EPP
system does. In the end I asked my friend who works at a registrar to
hack my request into their system which he did by injecting commands
into the verisign epp using a one-off perlscript :^)

I had a look and there's currently only 24[1] AAAA glue's in the .com
zone. There's a few more in .net[2], but really I'm a bit disappointed
by it and I suspect it is mostly because the registrars do not seem to
support it yet.

Also, does anyone know what the situation with .uk is? I'm afraid I
let my nominet membership lapse.  Does the automaton support AAAA glue
yet?


Rob.


[1] http://wari.mckay.com/~rm/aaaa.com.txt
[2] http://wari.mckay.com/~rm/aaaa.net.txt
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4
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