[dns-wg] Change in Reverse Zone File Generation

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for any duplicate messages.

This message about our zone file generation process is for your
information, there is no action required on your part.

We have completed the cleanup of a number of DOMAIN objects in the
Whois Database and NS Resource Records in the DNS files [1, 2 and
3]. We have verified that data within zone files generated from the
Whois Database matches the data currently in our zone files. We will
start generating our zone files from the Whois Database on Tuesday 13
April 2004.

>From a DNS point of view this change will be transparent. DNS
delegations will not change and there will be no interruptions in DNS
service.

The change in the method of zone generation allows us to migrate to a
new interface for submission of reverse delegation requests. We plan
to have the new interface available by the end of April, an
announcement to the <dns-wg at ripe.net> and <ncc-services-wg at ripe.net>
mailing lists will be sent.

We hope we have informed you sufficiently, do not hesitate to contact
us if you have further questions.


--Olaf Kolkman
   New Projects, RIPE NCC



References:
[1] Original RDNS Project Proposal http://www.ripe.net/reverse/proposal.html

[2] Cleanup Proposal
     http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/2003/msg00738.html

[3] RDNS Project Page: http://www.ripe.net/reverse/rdns-project/