[dns-wg] Changes to RIPE NCC's zonelet repository

Dear colleagues,

At the request of one of the RIRs, we have postponed this work to 5
September 2017.

Regards,
Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC

On 15/08/2017 14:44, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The RIPE NCC publishes DNS zonelets at the following URL:
> 
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/zones
> 
> The other RIRs fetch these zonelets to merge their content into the
> zones they operate. All zonelet files are published with canonical
> filenames, eg. 1.in-addr.arpa-RIPE. Additionally, for the IPv4 reverse
> DNS zones, we have been publishing symbolic links with legacy names (eg.
> 001-RIPE) that point to the canonical names, because old provisioning
> software at all the RIRs relied on the legacy names. However, this is no
> longer necessary. Therefore, on August 22 2017, we will stop publishing
> these legacy files, and all the zonelets will be published only with
> their canonical names.
> 
> Regards,
> Anand Buddhdev
> RIPE NCC
> 
>