Okay, I cannot take it any more.

Daniel Roesen droesen at entire-systems.com
Fri May 26 15:30:04 UTC 2000


On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:48:14PM +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
> >222.15.116.24.in-addr.arpa.  23h59m23s
> >   IN NS dns0.ancdf.org.15.116.24.in-addr.arpa.
> >
> >They obviously don't understand RFC2317 (Classless DNS Reverse Delegation).
> 
> It looks like they chose *not* to use RFC 2317, but instead delegated
> each IP address as a separate zone.

Yes. Obviously.

> This is a valid mechanism, and not unreasonable for tiny address
> blocks

Hm. IMHO only for tiny = 1 IP address... :-) I can see no reason in
favour of this method if you have to hand out control for more than
one IP address reverse-mapping. Please enlighten me :-)

> but they screwed up and forgot to put a "." at the end of the
> dns0.ancdf.org hostname in the delegation record.

Yep, forgot to mention that.


Best regards,
Daniel



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