Daniel Karrenberg says:
What remains open is the question on whether in-addr.arpa zone registrations should be effected automatically by registering the 'rev-srv' field in the RIPE database. I have had quite a few comments from people who want this and I personally agree it would be a nice feature. Some people actually assumed this was the way it was working already and complained that they had to register in-addr.arpa separately with the NIC!
I do not see Piet's argument that this would mean a loss of authority of the network contacts. They have the same authority for changing the RIPE database than they have for changing the NIC database which then generates the in-addr.arpa zone information. Just the procedure would be different, and easier: One stop shopping with no additional cost (and no warranty of agency :-), sorry inside joke).
So my proposal would be to do this in steps:
First clean up the inconsistencies in the RIPE database using the procedure above.
Then populate the database with the current in-addr.arpa information, notifying the tech contacts of each change.
After these two steps the information in in-addr.arpa and both the NIC and RIPE databases is consistent.
Then initiate changes of in-addr.arpa whenever the 'rev-srv' attribute in the RIPE DB is changed. This means the one stop shopping is effective. Until confidence is built we can notify the tech contacts whenever such a change is made.
Is this acceptable?
YES, I very much agree with this plan. I have to say, commenting some other mail on the subject, that the DNS is a distributed database BUT the in-addr.arpa registration is indeed a centralized service, so I prefer very much to have the RIPE-NCC as my counterpart in this tedious matter, rather than the US NIC. The NCC has proven to much more efficient and responsive than the US NIC. Full stop. ---------- ---------- Antonio_Blasco Bonito E-Mail: bonito@nis.garr.it GARR - Network Information Service c=it;a=garr;p=garr;o=nis;s=bonito c/o CNUCE - Istituto del CNR Tel: +39 (50) 593246 Via S. Maria, 36 Telex: 500371 CNUCE I 56126 PISA Italy Fax: +39 (50) 904052 ---------- ----------