Re: [enum-wg] Italian Nameservers for 9.3.164.arpa. dead?

[John C Klensin john+ietf@localhost]

--On Monday, 21 January, 2008 17:55 +0100 Bernie Hoeneisen
bhoeneis@localhost wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Jim Reid wrote:
> 
>> Same as it's always been Bernie. The Tier 1 registry for +39
>> should beef up  its DNS infrastructure, for example by buying
>> DNS service from a reliable  hosting provider.
> 
> Would Ripe have the possibility to (temporarly) remove the
> delegation, if such situations occur? Unfortunately, it
> happens quite often with Italy....:-(
> 
>> It is particularly disappointing that the 9.3.e164.arpa zone
>> seems to  delegated to just two name servers that live on the
>> same subnet. RFC2182  advised against this 11 years ago.

Hi.

Under principles that go back much longer than even RFC 2182 (as
does the principle of separated name servers -- 2182 just
reaffirmed an old principle and stated it more clearly), a
registry should be able to remove a zone if it is consistently
poorly administered.  Given the circumstances of e164.arpa, I
think actually doing that would require a discussion between
RIPE NCC and the IAB.   But I see no reason why it should not be
possible to reach consensus on a mechanism for notifying a Tier
1 registry that, if they do not manage to establish servers that
do not fate-share, the zone delegation will be removed until
they develop and implement a plan.

    john