Re: Size of glue records.

I just removed all of the AAAA and A6 records and the bandwidth seems
a little bit better.  Does this make sense?  Or is the bandwidth going
somewhere else.

-Steve



On Wed, 28 May 2003, Steven Job wrote:

> 
> Does Bind return everything with the glue record?
> If the nameserers had A, AAAA, and A6 records would all
> of those records be returned?
> 
> Here is a quick sample:
> 
> The domain being queried 'domaina.com':
> www.domaina.com               A               11.13.15.16
> domaina.com           NS              ns1.domainb.com
> domaina.com           NS              ns2.domainb.com
> domaina.com           NS              ns3.domainb.com
> domaina.com           NS              ns4.domainb.com
> 
> 
> The domain running the nameserver 'domainb.com':
> ns1.domainb.com               A               12.13.14.15
> ns1.domainb.com               AAAA            ::1
> ns1.domainb.com               A6              0 3ffe:8050:201:1860::
> ns2.domainb.com               A               12.13.14.16
> ns2.domainb.com               AAAA            ::1
> ns2.domainb.com               A6              0 3ffe:8050:201:1860::
> ns3.domainb.com               A               12.13.14.17
> ns3.domainb.com               AAAA            ::1
> ns3.domainb.com               A6              0 3ffe:8050:201:1860::
> ns4.domainb.com               A               12.13.14.18
> ns4.domainb.com               AAAA            ::1
> ns4.domainb.com               A6              0 3ffe:8050:201:1860::
> 
> (Please excuse the invalid records for example purposes. :-) )
> 
> So now if someone asks for www.domaina.com what comes over on the
> glue record?
> 
> Just the 4 A records of the nameservers?  Or all of the A, AAAA, 
> and A6 records?  That is a lot of bandwidth it needs then huh?
> 
> Thanks for explaining this to me.
> -Steve
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