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As "Glue records are required when you wish to set the name servers of a domain name to a hostname under the domain name itself." does it means that if you want to set the name servers as pure IPs you might not need glue records?
– Alex
Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 11:41
I don't think you can actually do this. You need a domain name / hostname, but you could of course use another domain name for it (which then allows it to be resolved without glue records)
– MichelZ
Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 12:17
Ok, so not possible. Then how does a domain provider resolve this issue for itself? Does a domain provider has more "powers", granted by IANA (or others), than a normal dns server?
– Alex
Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 12:47
I'm not sure what you mean. The GLUE record is recorded in the TLD zone, not at any specific provider
– MichelZ
Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 12:49
As I can see glue records are used/appear in 2 places: inside provider's control panel for the domain and inside your TLD zone file. Now, if it would be the beginning of the internet and it would be the first domain provider...how it should add those glue records...as there is no provider for the initial provider?
– Alex
Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 13:15

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