[Community-Discuss] Yet more data base problems/inconsistancies

[AFRINIC Communication]

Dear Community members,

We appreciate your concern around the duplicate domain object in the AFRINIC whois Database. The same was raised and discussed on the DBWG mailing list <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2020-September/000269.html>  

We have been working on this when it came to our attention and we hope to have this resolved and deployed soon. We shall keep the community updated as soon as this has been done.

The domain objects with the trailing dot were previously possible according to RFC 1034. The AFRINIC whois Database however does not allow the creation of this type of domains.

The objects in question cannot be queried via port 43 as the Whois Database automatically removes any trailing dot from the object key.

Regarding the issue with the zone files, we are still investigating and an update will be provided to the community as soon as it is resolved.

Regards,

Ashil Oogarah

On behalf of AFRINIC's IT and Engineering Team



> On 6 Nov 2020, at 09:09, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> 

> In message <26aae75f-9047-85d9-efa6-21319369619c at geier.ne.tz>, 

> Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:

> 

>>>> So probably the

>>>>> domain:         35.203.196.in-addr.arpa

>>>> object shouldn't have been allowed to be created / imported from RIPE...

>>> 

>>> Let me just say at the outset that I may perhaps not be on entirely

>>> solid ground here... I may need to drag out my Cricket book and double

>>> check this... but my belief at the moment is that what you just said

>>> is not actually correct, that DNS is a bit like routing, where a more

>>> specific can effectively override a less specific, and that there is

>>> nothing to prevent separate and different delegations to both a

>>> containing /16 and also to a /24 within that /16.

>> 

>> I have no idea why Cricket ....   ;-)

> 

> Cricket Liu co-wrote the (famous?) O'Reilly book titled "DNS and Bind":

> 

> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/dns-and-bind/0596100574/

> 

> In the O'Reilly tradition, the book has a woodcut print of an animal on

> the front cover, in this case a grasshopper, which is a close relative

> of the cricket species... an image that most folks consider to be a sort

> of backhanded tribute to the co-author.

> 

> Old school geeks tend to refer to O'Reilly technical books just by the

> names of the animals on their respective covers, for example the dreaded

> O'Reilly "Bat Book", which can easily double as counterbalance to a small

> child on any playground seesaw.  (The book may also serve to secure a

> car or a small bus from flying off during any tornado.)

> 

>> But have to say I agree.

>> I was writing what I was writing based on the 2nd paragraph from Anand in

>> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2020-October/006687.html

>> which maybe I have misinterpreted.

> 

> I will go with the more authoritative information source, i.e. the "Cricket

> Book".

> 

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