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Re: classless delegation [Re: IP address fee??]

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Fri Sep 06 10:59:09 2002
  • Reply-by: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100

At 4:40 PM +0200 2002/09/06, Peter van Dijk wrote:

 I am doing separate zone files. Each IP delegated to me is a separate
 zone. Now, again, what is wrong with that?
Technically, nothing -- at least, with the absolute latest authoritative nameservers and the absolute latest recursive/caching nameservers, and it doesn't seem to give much problems to modern resolver libraries.

Procedurally, everything is wrong with it -- in part, because of the profusion of mis-configured authoritative and recursive/caching nameservers that exist on the Internet today (not to mention resolving libraries), the fact that most vendors today still ship vulnerable authoritative & recursive/caching nameservers with their OSes (and *no one* ships an OS that uses modern resolver libraries), and the fact that 99.999999% of the people on the 'net will take the default garbage that the vendor ships to them simply because they don't know any better.

 o The reverse zone contains one or more A records
     The reverse domain "192.122.109.193.in-addr.arpa." contains one
     or more A records.  A records should only be placed in
     forward-mapping domains.
 What A-records is it talking about? I am not seeing any.
They are the ones associated with your NS records. At a procedural level, PTR records are mutually exclusive with SOA & NS records.

 Indeed, you found some things wrong with the /24 zone, but that was
 not the subject, and nothing you found wrong with the /24 is related
 to the /29.
	See above.

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