[dns-operations] Limit on Name Servers & their IPs for a sub-domain

[Mark Andrews]

More the priming query.  The only servers that make SOA queries for the root
automatically are other root servers (official or otherwise). You don’t need
the address records to fit to deal with those queries.

> On 12 Jan 2018, at 4:58 pm, Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud at ogud.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Thursday, 11 January, 2018 10:11, "James Stevens" <James.Stevens at jrcs.co.uk> said:
> 
> > I am aware of the "traditional" limit of 13 NS records for a sub-domain,
> > is it considered that this still applies?
> >
> This was never a limit the number 13 comes from 
> it was the maximum number of NS records with glue that could be returned in a SOA query for the root zone
> and fit in 512 bytes. 
> (in the days when adding NS records to all answers was a good practice) 
> Olafur
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