On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, [windows-1252] Jørgen Elgaard Larsen wrote:
Does anyone have an idea of how many inetnum objects there are in the whois database for IPv4 ranges lower than /24 - compared to the total number of inetnum objects?
There are 959000 </24 inetnum objects vs 1101000 total inetnum objects vs 139000 domain objects vs 137000 delegations currently in the RIPE database/zone files. ( Note that some domain objects are occluded by other domain objects )
The question here would be whether the RIPE NCC DNS servers can carry the load.
We have ccTLD zones secondaried on the same servers with more than a million DNS records.
It is true that some DSL customers have dynamic addresses, but many have static ones. If someone were to make reverse DNS for dynamic addresses, it would have to be the ISP (or whoever controls the /24 zone). I feel
Agreed. ( DNS updates by the NCC for dynamic addresses has LIR customers directly contacting the NCC written all over it, to say nothing of how we handle this in the database ) Regards, -- Bruce Campbell RIPE Systems/Network Engineer NCC www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B Operations/Security "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.