[db-wg] Since when does one need 3 nameservers for inverse?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: db-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:db-wg-admin at ripe.net] On 
> Behalf Of Hank Nussbacher
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:19 AM
> To: db-wg at ripe.net
> Cc: rdns-project at ripe.net
> Subject: [db-wg] Since when does one need 3 nameservers for inverse?
> 
> In the "Reverse Delegation How To":
> http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/reverse_howto.html
> it states:
> 
> "NS Servers
> Ensure you have at least two nameservers that are 
> authoritative for the zone. The resolvable names of these NS 
> servers should be in the NS resource records of the zone. The 
> nameservers should be on different subnets."
> 
> Yet when I submit a request I get:
> ***RDNS:    (related to set) ERROR (20 points): At least 3 nameservers
>              are required for each properly delegated zone. 
> We found only
>              2 in your submission.
> 
> In addition the reverse delegation checker at:
> http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/delcheck/delcheck2.cgi
> doesn't flag only 2 nameservers as an error.
> 
> What gives?
> 

Indeed you are right, something doesn't look quite right here. Thanks for
flagging it I'll take a look.

Brett

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Brett Carr                              RIPE Network Coordination Centre
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