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. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky