[dns-operations] [16-31].172.in-addr.arpa and 168.192.in-addr.arpa no longer delegated

[Chris Thompson]

On Apr 9 2011, Joe Abley wrote:

>
>On 2011-04-09, at 14:10, Chris Thompson wrote:
>
>> It used to be that the zones
>> 
>> 10.in-addr.arpa
>> 16.172.in-addr.arpa - 31.172.in-addr.arpa
>> 168.192.in-addr.arpa
>> 
>> were delegated to blackhole-1.iana.org & blackhole-2.iana.org as part
>> of the AS112 project.
>
>Responses from whois.arin.net (ARIN manages 172/8 and 192/8, at least as
>far as IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations are concerned) contain the right nameservers.
>I have dropped a note to ARIN to let them know that the delegations seem to
>have disappeared.

Well, that seems to have done the trick! Good to know that speaking softly
was enough and you didn't have to wield the big stick ...

BTW, I should credit Malcolm Scott <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mas90/> for
bringing the problem with "type forward"/"type stub" zone definitions to
my attention in the first place.

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