ARIN?

Jon Lewis jlewis at inorganic5.fdt.net
Mon Nov 9 04:23:01 UTC 1998


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.

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