[dns-operations] Accurately identifying glue records

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:52 PM -0500 2006-05-15, John Kristoff wrote:

>  I've already been told by one colleague that I too should use a real
>  language called Python.  :-)

	Which is funny, because I'm also involved in supporting the 
Mailman project and helping administer the python.org mail system.

	The ironic thing is that I can kinda-semi-sorta hack on shell 
scripts (something I've been doing for over twenty years), and I've 
managed to make some small modifications to some Perl scripts without 
causing them to break too much, but I can't even do that much with 
Python.  ;)

>  I may not have made it clear, but for my purposes all I really cared
>  about were glue records at one of the parents.  I am assuming, but
>  perhaps incorrectly that all parents are properly synchronized.

	In my experience, that is definitely not a valid assumption.

	Of course, it may or may not make a difference for your 
application, so you'll have to judge how far down the rabbit hole you 
need to go.

>  I'll have to give doc a closer look before I can really say much.

	I'd appreciate any comments or advice you may have.  I'm kind of 
at a point where I can't do too much more with it as it stands, and 
I'd hate to see it completely die.


	Thanks again!

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