RE: [NSI-RRP] IP Address Uniqueness

From: Patrik Fältström (paf@swip.net)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 08:34:06 EDT

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    At 07.34 -0400 00-06-30, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
    >That is, there's a
    >single name server object, but the object has attributes that identify both
    >IP addresses and host name aliases. Aliases can be added only by the
    >registrar sponsoring the primary host name, but the aliases can be host
    >names registered in other TLDs. For example, ns1.example.com could have
    >aliases foo.example.com, ns1.example.org, or ns1.example.com.au.

    What problem are you trying to solve?

    I think that you try to solve the problem with "who can claim that a
    certain IP-address (via the hostname of the NS) is actually
    nameserver for a certain domain?".

    This can only be answered by checking what user owns the IP-address,
    and verifying with that user -- and that will be at one of the RIRs.

    Two NS with different name are two different objects, and they should
    be able to be managed by two different administrators -- regardless
    of what IP address they have.

    We already have a problem that you have users which create NS records
    refering to dns servers of for example Tele2 without talking with
    Tele2. I don't think you can stop anyone doing that. It doesn't
    matter if the user registering the domain gives the hostname of the
    nameserver or a new hostname with same IP-address. You will get the
    same problem anyway. It can aswell be one physical host with many
    IP-addresses. I.e. who do you ask to verify that the _first_
    assignment of a NS to a specific host/IP is correct?

    Beliving that the first allocation of that IP-address in the registry
    (or registrar) is correct doesn't really solve the problem, or does
    it? I don't think so, but correct me if I am wrong.

    The easiest way is probably to follow the data model one have in DNS.

        paf
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