Re: Blocks in 193.in-addr.arpa domain document

• To: Marten Terpstra < >
• From: Daniel Karrenberg < >
• Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 13:32:25 +0100
• Cc: bonito@localhost (Antonio_Blasco Bonito),

  > Marten Terpstra <Marten.Terpstra@localhost writes:
  >  * Suppose you get:
  >  * inetnum: 193.204.64.0 - 193.204.67.0
  >  * <administrativia>
  >  * rev-srv: <server1>
  >  * rev-srv: <server2>
  >  * But server1 and server2 only have data for 64.204.193.in-addr.arpa. beca
  > use
  >  * the remaining three nets in the block are not yet active.
  >  * What will you do?
  > 
  > My gut feeling would be we add them anyway. If the nets are not yet active,
  > there is probably no need to do reverse lookups anyway, so noone would
  > notice. On the other hand this would clash with the constraint that we woul
  > d
  > like to see all servers working before we add them ... I think we can put
  > some intelligence in the rev-srv field to DNS record generator to get aroun
  > d
  > these things. Daniel ?

We could but the standard answer of course is: 

Multiple networks can only be folded into one RIPE DB object if all their
attributes are the same. So either the reverse servers are up, or there need
to be two objects: 193.204.64 and 192.204.65 - 192.204.67.


Daniel

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