[21257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Mon Nov 9 04:46:58 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 01:27:09 -0800
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, gem@rellim.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981108231921.32611H-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
At 11:23 PM 11/8/98 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
>> What this means is that ARIN is restricting the DNS management. If you have
>> less than a /29 then you are not allowed to manage your own domain-space
>> without a handler. That handler is the ISP. To be honest, most of our /29's
>> are too clueless to handle DNS, in fact most of them are Microsoft-only
>
>Just the /29 users? DNS is irrelevant. ARIN only watches over IPv4
>address space utilization. OK...they also handle in-addr.arpa delegations
>for the space they look after, but the fact that they don't want swips of
>/29 or longer prefixes has nothing to do with who can manage DNS.
If you are not handling your own in-addr.arpa then you are not fully
managing your own DNS name space. In *many* cases, if the reverse does not
match the forward reference then access will be denied.
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