[afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:08:26PM +0300,
 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 63 lines which said:

> whois -h whois.afrinic.net -t domain ?

With GNU whois, it is "whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- -t domain" :-)

> I believe the procedure is the same as RIPE DB  (hierarchical auth
> rules apply). 

OK, I should have thought of it. Unfortunately, there is no
test-dbm at afrinic.net, only a auto-dbm at afrinic.net so I really created
the in-addr.arpa :-(

I wonder what permission checking is in place. inetnum 217.64.96.0 -
217.64.96.255 has a maintainer, has no "mnt-domains" but I was able to
create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa (let's see if it is actually delegated).

> Apparently the one diff is that domain object creation is no
> guarantee of successful reverse (use DiG later to check on DNS entry
> creation).

Wait and see...