Re: [anti-spam-wg@ripe.net] Abuse contacts in RIPE database and whois

[Florian Weimer <]

* Markus Stumpf:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:07:40PM +0200, Patrick Oonk wrote:
>> Apart from the fact that the RP record is a good and simple method, it 
>> does not seem to work in BIND 9. Using the example at 
>> http://soa.granitecanyon.com/pexample.html I created a RP record
>> 
>> mydomain.com	IN	RP	abuse.mydomain.com.
>
> a RP RR takes two arguments. You want to write
>   mydomain.com	IN	RP	abuse.mydomain.com. .
> The second argument is an optional reference to another RR like
>     example.com.  IN	RP	abuse.example.com. abuse.people.example.com.
>     abuse.people.example.com. IN TXT "Abuse Dept, phone: 555-1234"

Another thing to check: Do caching resolvers process CNAMEs properly
when queried for RP records?