Re: 193.in-addr.arpa procedures V1.3

Hi Marten,

  > One last go. I think we folded in most of the comments from Blaso and others.
In general looks fine.

There is one point where I ould make use of a bit more options.
I have been working on how to use the data base to generate some parts 
of my name server configuration (and in particular preparing for this 
by inserting *rev-srv: fields in quite a number of records).
 
  > 2. The "rev-srv" field should ONLY contain one fully qualified domain
  > name of a nameserver which is authoritative for the reverse zone for
  > this network. 
I suggest to change the rule here slightly;  I would find it useful
to allow the single domain name to be followed by optional dotted-quad
IP address(es) that can be used as glue. Sure, reverse mapping zones
never should carry glue records - but the addresses are needed for
generating named.boot on secondaries, and I see cases where I would like
to have the address[es] from the data base.  However please note, I'm
saying "CAN be used" not "will/should/are"!
Also I assume you are quietly implying

(a) that the primary server will be listed first, or rather that secondaries
    configured automatically out of the data base
    will hook up to the first listed server as their source

(b) that the database software will keep the relative order of fields with
    the same tag.

Assumptions/assertions like these need to be made explicit.

BTW the rules for "rev-srv:" and "nserver:" should be the same;
however I think the proposed new rules for "nserver:" differ from
documented rules - but IMHO make **much** more sense (for a long time I
intended to suggest changing the rules in this direction).

BTW, I will not be able to reformat my "segment" of the database according
to the new rules before leaving for Columbus (though I'm quite well prepared
for such tasks).

Cheers,
  Ruediger


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