getting Authoritative Name Servers registered in TLD

[Bill McGonigle]

On Dec 21, 2005, at 13:38, Thomas Charron wrote:

> As an examples ns1.example.com at 66.132.43.53services
> example.com.  example.com would need a glue record for that host in 
> the .com
> tld.  Is ns1.example.com is also doing DNS resolution for foo.org,
> technically, the .org TLD does NOT require a glue record, however, IT 
> IS
> RECOMENDED ONE EXIST.  Different tld's deal with this differently, but
> adding the glue records is always important.

Here's the part I'm having trouble wrapping my head around - when I 
register a domain they ask me to put in the names and IP's of the DNS 
servers for that domain which are reflected in the WHOIS records.  At 
one point before I knew about glue records I did this without asking 
for glue records to be created, and, sure enough, they were in WHOIS 
but there was no glue so the domain didn't work.

So, why isn't that enough if the zone files are generated from that 
database?  I understand why you need glue records but don't understand 
why glue records aren't automatically created when the TLD zone file is 
generated.

-Bill

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