Reverse Delegation

[Chip Old]

RIPE's whois database shows netblock UK-IOMART-990331 (212.38.160.0 -
212.38.191.255) as assigned to Iomart (apparently a couple of years ago),
but a bit of digging shows that RIPE hasn't delegated it to Iomart's name
servers.  Don't know if it's RIPE or Iomart, but someone has obviously
dropped the ball.

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Allen wrote to comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderator...:

> I've asked my ISP for them to provide a reverse DNS entry for my IP (ADSL
> single IP).
>
> They have done so on their server (I can query it and it resolves my IP
> with the name I chose)
>
> Obviously this isn't any use unless RIPE delegate down to my ISP....
>
> My ISP have said they have filled in the forms and sent them to RIPE and
> that they are having problems with RIPEs autoresponder.
>
> RIPE say that there is nothing wrong with their auto responder and that
> they have been processing requests constantly for the last few weeks and
> that they can't discuss the details of my ISP (like whether they received
> a request).
>
> This has been going on now for nearly a month and I'm rather frustrated.
>
> First of all I suspected my ISP, but they seem to be very hot on all the
> other changes they've made (it took them only a day or so to put the data
> on to their server).
>
> So the question is : How good are RIPE at this normally? And what can I
> do next (probably not a lot)? ... :o(
>
> The /24 in question is 212.38.190 and the primary nameserver is
> ns.iomart.com
>
> Simon.
>
>
>

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