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NetworkSolutions - Was: Re: v6 gluelessness

  • From: David Freedman
  • Date: Wed Jan 23 13:36:28 2008

Will somebody please, please PLEASE let me know what magic process for networksolutions are to get AAAA glue added, am on the 72nd hour of the phone game where questions are bouncing between:

- What is a glue record?

and

- What is an AAAA record?


$ dig +norec AAAA @a.gtld-servers.net. dot.ep.net | grep AAAA
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> +norec AAAA @a.gtld-servers.net. dot.ep.net
;dot.ep.net. IN AAAA
dot.ep.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:478:6:0:230:48ff:fe22:6a29
dot.ep.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:478:6:0:230:48ff:fe22:6a29

$ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ep.net | grep Record
   Record expires on 13-Jun-2012.
   Record created on 09-Dec-1994.


Bill has one, I want one!

</sulk>

Seriously though, would really appreciate a contact there who knows what they are doing.

Dave.


[email protected] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
Bill,

On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>	its been this way since at least 2003, when there was an effort
>	to get som servers changed, when ICANN first allowed AAAA records
>	into the root zone.  Some requests are over four years old. :(

The oldest root management request IANA has in its queue is about 1 year old and is unrelated to glue policy. The oldest glue related request (adding a AAAA to f.root-servers.net) is 10 months old and will be processed (along with the 3 other outstanding root server requests) on/around 4 Feb after the ICANN board mandated public notification period.

If you have reason to believe there are older outstanding requests, please let me know (preferably privately as I would imagine this isn't particularly in the charter of NANOG's mailing list). 


	ah... a bit of digging shows that the IANA (prior to your
	tenure) closed the request for unspecified reasons.  I suspect
	that it was due to the then unstated policy that ccTLD holders
	control the glue of the nameservers publishing their data.

--bill


Thanks,
-drc