[dns-wg] Announcement: Redirecting reverse DNS updates

[RIPE Database Manager <]

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@localhost will automatically be forwarded to
auto-inaddr@localhost 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', 'ip6.arpa' or 'ip6.int', it will be redirected
  to: auto-inaddr@localhost

- If the update contains a mixture of domain objects whose "domain:"
  attributes end with 'in-addr.arpa', 'ip6.arpa', 'ip6.int' 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@localhost for questions,
comments or suggestions.

Regards,

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Can Bican
Software Engineering Department
RIPE NCC