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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:03:40 +0200
From:      Ingeborg Hellemo <Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Sieb=F6rger?= <drs-stable@rucus.ru.ac.za>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sdflkj 
Message-ID:  <200110041003.f94A3ex15230@boyd.cc.uit.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:12:04 %2B0200." <20011004111204.A7847@rucus.ru.ac.za> 

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drs-stable@rucus.ru.ac.za said:
> On Thu 2001-10-04 (08:59), Ceri wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:16:20PM -0700, Michael Sierchio said:
> > 
> > > My apologies.  My ISP's absolute refusal to delegate reverse entries
> > > for my domain and /29 net is the problem.  They gave me CNAME
> > entries
> > > instead of PTR records
> > 
> > Umm, you can't delegate reverse DNS for a /29 _without_ using CNAMEs.

> Not true.  While the use of CNAMEs is suggested by RFC 2317, NS
> records can be used too.  The technique is described at:

> http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/avoid-rfc-2317-delega
> tion.html 

Do _not_ use this technique!

Cite from <URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=99948971616624&w=2>;

"The document does NOT describe a valid DNS setup. It is simply illegal.
Please, completely ignore this setup.

Following the ignorant example on your site would lead to that machine
being authoritative for the in-addr.arpa. domain. Only the
[a-i].root-servers.net. should be authoritative for those.

This set-up will leak incorrect/dangerous/poisonous info through
authoritative & additional sections. For a provider with old caches (those
that will cache authoritative/additional section) that happen to have
cached yours, has the rest of the reverse name-space unavailable during
TTL of the RR's in the sections.

Bad. Very very bad.

Roy Arends
Nominum "


--Ingeborg
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