[dns-operations] Delegation to IPs?

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Mar 13 11:45:42 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:32:57AM -0400,
 Matt Pounsett <matt.pounsett at cira.ca> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> I've just been asked to do a delegation of a zone to a bare IP
> address, rather than to a host name.

>From time to time, our Zonecheck tool catches such attempts.

> Based on my read of section 3.3.11 of RFC 1035, it seems to me this
> isn't allowed ...

I agree with you. And BIND or nsd will probably agree, too :-)





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