Re: ARIN?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

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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