getting Authoritative Name Servers registered in TLD

[Bruce Dawson]

Python wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:36 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
>  
>
>>A glue record is a seperate, for the most part, ownerless object
>>within the tld.  Once you create a glue record it will *NEVER* be
>>deleted.
>>    
>>
>
>I sort of assumed that orphans (an A record with no NS record) would be
>found and deleted, but maybe there are not yet enough orphans to worry
>about.  Or am I over simplifying things.
>  
>
Without any NS record, an A record will never be reached (nor will any 
other records) - at least not by the root nameservers.

As far as I know, BIND (the protocol) is unaware of any orphans. Other 
than that, its up to the BIND server's implementation to clean things up.

--Bruce