RE: [enum-wg] Name "ripe" in the e164.arpa zone

["Marco Davids" <Marco.Davids@localhost]

> > The tools that transfer these zonelets rely on this extra piece of
> > information in the TXT record for consistency checks. 

> Hmmm. This smells like a bug. Why are the DNS provisioning tools for
> e164.arpa generating data that isn't needed and inserting that data
> into the DNS? 

What else is new?

Look for 'VRSN-END-OF-ZONE-MARKER-DUMMY-RECORD' in .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root

There is one in the .arpa zone as well:

http://www.robert.net/ccTLD/ARPA/

(okay I agree, this domain name is a little bit longer than just 'ripe')

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Marco