[db-wg] Announcement: Redirecting reverse DNS updates

Dear Colleagues,

From 8 December 2003, as part of the effort to streamline reverse DNS 
operations, domain updates that contain in-addr.arpa or ip6.arpa type 
entries sent to <auto-dbm at ripe.net> will automatically be forwarded to 
<auto-inaddr at ripe.net> for processing. This will continue until the two 
processes are combined into one.

Such updates will be processed as follows:

- If the update contains only domain objects whose "domain:" attributes end
  with 'in-addr.arpa' or 'ip6.arpa' , it will be redirected to:
  <auto-inaddr at ripe.net>

- If the update contains a mixture of domain objects whose "domain:"
  attributes end with 'in-addr.arpa' or 'ip6.arpa', as well as other types
  of database objects, the message will be rejected. The user will receive
  an e-mail requesting that the objects be separated and re-submitted.

- All other e-mails will be processed as normal.

- It will not be possible to update these domain objects using syncupdates.

Please don't hesitate to contact <ripe-dbm at ripe.net> for questions, 
comments or suggestions.

Regards,

-- 
Can Bican
Software Engineering Department
RIPE NCC