Useful references for Reverse DNS Delegations

There is a large amount of related information available on the Internet. We have divided them into three categories:

• RIPE Documents
• RFC's
• DNS Miscellaneous sources

RIPE Documents Related to Reverse Delegation

• Policy for Reverse Address Delegation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space in the RIPE NCC Service Region

  This document contains extensive background to Reverse Delegation and a detailed procedure for obtaining reverse delegation.

• RIPE Database Reference Manual

  An introduction to the use of the RIPE Database in general. How to query the database and how to create, change and delete information.

RFC's

Particularly relevant are:

• RFC 2317
  Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation
  
  A Best Current Practices RFC, explaining how to do reverse delegation on non-octet boundaries. This technique allows, for example, customers of an ISP who have less space than /24 to still manage their own nameserver(s).

• RFC 1912
  Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors
  
  An informational RFC, which obsoleted RFC 1537.

• RFC 3172
  Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")

• RFC 2874
  DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering

• RFC 1034
  Domain names - concepts and facilities

• RFC 1035
  Domain names - implementation and specification

• RFC 2182
  Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers

• RFC 2845
  Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)

DNS Miscellaneous Sources

• A treasure trove of DNS related links