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Re: ARIN co-located nameserver problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed Dec 9 16:23:22 1998

Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 14:55:33 -0600
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Wayne <wayne@domain.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0znpWt-0008G4C@rip.psg.com>; from Randy Bush on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:44:11AM -0800

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:44:11AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > It's really not ARIN's business what address space a nameserver lives on.
> 
> arin is delegating.  a delegator has the obligation to the community to see
> that the delegatee's nameservice is correctly done.
> 
> randy

BUT THAT IS ALL.

The authoritative answer for a zone, and request from the contact to change
the delegation to the new server (which returns authority) is IT.

Anything else isn't "responsibility" - it is punitive and potentially a lot
of other things I'd rather not say.

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