unwanted delegations was: What to do about openDNS

[Scott Haneda]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:

> On 20-Jan-2009, at 21:24 , Danny Thomas wrote:
>
>> Scott Haneda wrote:
>>> I brought this up a few months back.  For me, it is getting worse,  
>>> and I am not able to come up with a solution.
>>>
>>> I have many clients who reg domains.  They all point to my NS.   
>>> Sometimes, the client lapses hosting with me, and I delete the  
>>> zones.  They usually leave the domain reg'd and my NS's listed.
>> The system should recognise the rights of nameserver operators.
>> There should be some process by which unwanted delegations can be  
>> removed.
>> Obviously doing this on the basis of an email is not a good idea,  
>> but perhaps
>> the nameserver operator can publish their desire in a credible  
>> fashion:
>
> I think the fix would be to registry operations, not the protocol.
>
> Registries that implement host records (so, at least the gTLDs)  
> could accept the word of the registrant of the zone that contains a  
> name server (or the word of their registrar on their behalf) that  
> the server is no longer authoritative for zone X.  Registries that  
> haven't implemented host records could also do it, but it may be  
> more complicated to implement, depending on their particular system.


This is actually an interesting idea to me.

However, the one thing that no one has chimed in on yet, is this seems  
to me to be an openDNS issue.  The current DNS system works pretty  
well.  It actually handles this case rather gracefully, with proper  
caching there is no real danger.  My issue is the relentless pounding  
openDNS does, and for reasons I am not able to even guess.
--
Scott