DENIC and SOA numbers?

[Kevin Darcy]

They have every right to regulate the contents of their own subdomains, just as
I have the right to regulate the contents of chrysler.com subdomains. That's what
"delegation" means. If you don't like their TLD, pick another one.


- Kevin

John Oliver wrote:

> I just got this email, and am not too happy about it...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CSL Hostmaster [mailto:hostmaster at csl-gmbh.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:26 AM
> > To: Weikel, Duane
> > Subject: Re: [domreg at nic.de: Re: UPDATE: cyva.de]
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:03:34PM -0400, Weikel, Duane wrote:
> > >       We submitted a server change request for the domain name of
> > > 'cyva.de' on the online (internet) form and we have not had a respone from
> > > you.  Please change the domain name of 'cyva.de' to be on the following
> > two
> > > servers:
> > >
> > > Server: ns.connectnet.com
> > > Address: 207.110.0.60
> > >
> > > Server: ns2.connectnet.com
> > > Address: 207.110.0.128
> >
> > DENIC requires a specific range of values for SOA record entries:
> >
> > ns.connectnet.com.: SOA value expire (5184000) does not fit in range [604800
> > ... 3600000].
> > ns.connectnet.com.: SOA value retry (1200) does not fit in range [1800 ...
> > 28800].
> > ns.connectnet.com.: SOA value refresh (3600) does not fit in range [10000
> > ... 86400].
> >
> > And DENIC doesn't allow all NS records for a domain in the same Class C
> > network
> > (to avoid a single point of failure).
> >
> > So unfortunatlely your update was rejected by DENIC.
>
> What business do they have telling me what values to use in my zone
> files?  I'm not aware of any precedent for this, nor any valid technical
> reason.  But, not being a guru, I want to ask before I roast them over a
> slow fire.  Am I correct in believing that this is something that ICANN
> wouldn't view very favorably?
>
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