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Tom Gullen
Asked: 2012-02-24 17:19:25 +0800 CST

DNS Glue Record Creation

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I'm on Windows Server 2008. I'm using intoDNS to check I'm setting my DNS up correctly:

http://www.intodns.com/wewantogg.com

Everything looks fine for this domain except for the notice:

INFO: GLUE was not sent when I asked your nameservers for your NS records.This is ok but you should know that in this case an extra A record lookup is required in order to get the IPs of your NS records. The nameservers without glue are: 
209.126.137.108
209.62.64.46
You can fix this for example by adding A records to your nameservers for the zones listed above.

The name servers for this domain are:

ns12.zoneedit.com  ['209.62.64.46']   [TTL=7200] 
ns14.zoneedit.com  ['209.126.137.108']   [TTL=7200]

I've added them as a forward lookup zone in my servers DNS manager:

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Is this correct? It's still saying glue records have not been found and I'd like to resolve this if possible.

windows windows-server-2008 domain-name-system glue-record

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You misread the warning message from intoDNS. It is not your DNS servers that doesn't return the correct glue records, it's the nameservers at zoneedit.com that does not return glue records.

    In short: This is not your fault/problem, it's the good people at zoneedit.com's problem

    Otherwise, very decent test result btw

    Update: About the MX record
    If you are not going to use this domain to receive mail, don't take note of the "error". You may however want to add an SPF record, to help prevent spammers abuse your domain name for mail spoofing purposes.

    To add an SPF record, create a record of RR-type: TXT, with this value:

    v=spf1 -all

    This way you let SPF parsers know that all mail pretending to come from @wewantogg.com should be rejected as SPAM

    If you plan to introduce a mail server for sending and receiving (for example an Exchange organization), you can add mx to be allowed:

    v=spf1 mx -all

    This way you let SPF parsers know that mail pretending to come from @wewantogg.com should be rejected as SPAM unless it is sent from your MX

    Read more about SPF here

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  2. The issue is something out of your hands Zoneedit needs to add Glue records and because your Nameservers aren't authoritative there isn't anything you can do or worry about. You can contact Zoneedit's support but it isn't a big deal.

    The problem you should be concerned with is you have no MX records, those are what allow mail servers to send mail to each other. If you don't intend to send or receive mail at the domain this isn't a problem however if you want to get mail you need to enter one to reach your mail server

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