[as112-ops] [gii-ops] Advice requested on a proposal to delegate .local to AS112

[Colin Petrie]

On 02/05/16 18:56, William Sotomayor wrote:
> I think at some point, using RIPE Atlas might be the best bet and using
> the milions of credits I seem to have accumulated might be a good use of
> them.  

I had the same accumulation of credits :) So I thought I'd give it a
quick try when I was bored a week ago.

I asked Atlas to give me 500 probes world-wide, and queried for TXT
hostname.as112.arpa @192.31.196.1.
Then, from the same  500 probes, querying for TXT hostname.as112.net
@192.175.48.6

The results were something like this:
(the count is the number of Atlas probes hitting this AS112 node)

AS112 DNAME:
      1     AS112 at voipGATE S.A. (AS51405), Leudelange, Luxembourg, Europe
      1     Espanix. Spain's IX
      4     ICANN DNS Engineering, lax
      5     WIDE Project Osaka, Japan
      6     INEX - Internet Neutral Exchange Association Limited
      6     Toronto Internet Exchange Toronto, Canada
     16     Individual Network Berlin e.V.
     17     IT.Gate S.p.A. TRN, IT
     19     NIX.SK
     32     ICANN DNS Engineering, iad
    159     Hivane Networks
    168     RIPE NCC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AS112 Delegation:
      1     Greek Research & Technology Network Athens, Greece
      1     Liquid Telecommunications Kenya
      1     M-net Telekommunikations GmbH Munich, Germany
      1     NaMeX, Nautilus Mediterranean eXchange
      1     NIX.SK
      1     WIDE Project Osaka, Japan
      2     Internet Solutions, Johannesburg, South Africa
      2     ORG:University of Sofia, Bulgaria
      4     Ottawa Internet Exchange, Ottawa, Canada.
      5     ICANN DNS Engineering, lax
      5     ORGANIZATION: SOFIA UNIVERSITY 'ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI'
      5     Toronto Internet Exchange Toronto, Canada
      5     TREX Regional Exchanges Oy, FINLAND
      6     FASTWEB Internal AS112
      6     INEX - Internet Neutral Exchange Association Limited
      6     IT.Gate S.p.A. TRN, IT
     11     VeriSign Global Registry Services RFC 1918 blackhole servers
     12     ICANN DNS Engineering, iad
     12     Phyxia Networks
     15     NIX.CZ, Neutral Internet eXchange of Czech Republic
     16     Individual Network Berlin e.V.
     16     NIC.br - Sao Paulo, Brazil
     19     GNC-Alfa CJSC
     21     Widgets, Pty Ltd KK GmbH LLC Inc
     25     Goscomb Technologies Limited
     26     Qwest.net
     31     ClueTrust (AS16668)
     39     Afilias Global Registry Services
     52     Hivane Networks
     72     RIPE NCC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

So there is most definitely a large discrepancy in the number of visible
nodes supporting DNAME vs Delegation.

Cheers,
Colin


-- 
Colin Petrie
Systems Engineer
RIPE NCC