[dns-operations] Additional information about the RIPE NCC reverse DNS issue

[Tony Finch]

Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
>
> DNAME could be used, but it would involve an extra lookup for
> resolvers, right?

Yes, and it would also require a change of name for the delegated zones
which I suspect would be a bigger problem in practice :-)

There's some discussion and examples of using DNAME for reverse DNS in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc2317bis
(which expired mainly because I wasn't sure how to resolve the open
questions, and I lacked feedback)

Tony.
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