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Remark on 193.in-addr.arpa procedures
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Piet Beertema
Piet.Beertema at cwi.nl
Mon Apr 19 11:13:45 CEST 1993
please have a read of the remark below. We sort of feel
he Hakan has a point here. Did we miss something ? If not,
then I will change the procedures to reflect this remark.
Hakan has a very valid point here, but I don't
agree with all he's saying:
I can't see why at least two reverse servers should be
reachable from the whole of Internet. It must be enough
that they are equally reachable as the actual network
they are reverse serving for, or?
If a network doesn't have NSFnet connectivity (that is
what we are talking about, and should be mentioned in
your document!), there is no need for anyone at NSF to
lookup the reverse zone for that network either.
If a network doesn't have any external connectivity,
there is no need for it's in-addr.arpa nameservers
to be reachable from all of the Internet.
Whether or not a network has NSFnet connectivity is
irrelevant in the current context, so this should
*not* be mentioned in the document: if a network has
RIPE connectivity, then its in-addr.arpa nameservers
*must* be reachable from all RIPE networks; in this
context it should be noted that there is a root server
which can be reached from all RIPE networks, so there
is no need for NSFnet connectivity to make nameservers
on "RIPE-only" networks work.
However, it would be *desirable* if at least one of the
in-addr.arpa of a "RIPE-only* network would be reachable
from all of the Internet, so including NSFnet. Therefore
I would suggest to change item 3 into:
3) If a network has or is going to have any external
connectivity, it is strongly recommended that it
has at least one reverse nameserver that can be
reached from all of the Internet.
Piet
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