Re: LTUAE

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

One thing I've just thought: can we add a new name for master, say
`new-master.debian.org', that is an A record rather than a CNAME, and
tell people who're having problems to use that ?  That will bypass the
staleness from the internic.

Richard Kettlewell writes ("Re: LTUAE"):
...
> Apropos this, I *think* what's happening is that the root name servers
> have stale glue records.  We got bitten by this recently, finding that
> the Internic was reporting glue records for dns0.elmail.co.uk (and I'm
> not convinced it has any business whatsoever providing glue records
> for co.uk names).  I think someone should shout at them...

Yes, this is exactly what is happening.

...
> FWIW, I can see the new master from here.

You're probably an unofficial secondary for the zone, right ?  Then
you never ask the internic and never get the erroneous glue record.

Ian.