[ppml] Comments on ARIN's reverse DNS mapping policy

[Robert Bonomi]

> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:19:40 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Sam Weiler <weiler at tislabs.com>
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Comments on ARIN's reverse DNS mapping policy
>
> I'm wondering if it would be sufficient to have ARIN act _far_ more
> swiftly to remove the lame delegations.  While that wouldn't get good
> PTR records published, it should cure the long timeout problem.

Does an inompletely populated zone constitute a 'lame' server?

Does a zone with _no_ data other  than a SOA  constitute a 'lame' server?

Is a server that fails to return  NXDOMAIN in a _timely_ manner for
something it doesn't know about a 'lame' server?

It's not at all clear to me that requiring faser action for 7.2  addresses
any of those situations.

My understading of a lame server is one that is listed (elsewhere) as 
'authoritative' for a zone, but does NOT report itself as athoritative
when queried.

Policy is that the zone has to 'be there'. I haven't found anything that
says abot 'if' or 'what' has to be in the zone -- beyond the SOA that makes
it 'authoritative', that is.