[dns-operations] I missed the announcement: .ARPA has been deleted

[David Blacka]

On Feb 12, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> At least, this is what Google Public DNS says:
> 
> % dig @8.8.8.8 NS arpa.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 NS arpa.
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 48111
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;arpa.				IN	NS
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> arpa.			14387	IN	SOA	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2010021100 1800 900 604800 86400
> 
> ;; Query time: 17 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 12 15:54:17 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 109
> 
> 
> Other TLDs are fine :-)

Yet things below .arpa exist:

% dig @8.8.8.8 NS ip6.arpa.

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-P1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 NS ip6.arpa.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28568
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ip6.arpa.			IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ip6.arpa.		66811	IN	NS	ns-sec.ripe.net.
ip6.arpa.		66811	IN	NS	tinnie.arin.net.
ip6.arpa.		66811	IN	NS	ns.icann.org.
ip6.arpa.		66811	IN	NS	sec1.apnic.net.
ip6.arpa.		66811	IN	NS	ns2.lacnic.net.

;; Query time: 36 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 12 10:16:18 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 157

That is unpossible!

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David Blacka                          <davidb at verisign.com> 
Sr. Engineer          VeriSign Platform Product Development

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