DNS problems with nameservers for .be and [ 194.in-addr.arpa ]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:11:26 +0200 Brad Knowles <blk at skynet.be> said:

>  	A couple of problems with some pretty important nameservers
>  has been brought to my attention in the last couple of weeks.  I
>  would not normally bring this issue directly to such a wide group
>  of people, but I believe that this matter is sufficiently serious
>  to warrant such an approach.

	Sorry, I meant to mention that we had previously brought up these 
issues with Marc Roger at Belnet, and so far as I am able to 
determine, he simply didn't seem to care.  I believe that these 
issues have also been brought up with the management of DNS.BE, and 
again we haven't seen any results.

	Likewise, I believe that the administrators of EUnet are well 
aware of their DNS problems -- they are certainly aware of the 
problems of getting e-mail from any of their servers to many of ours, 
since our more recently configured and install machines refuse to 
accept mail from hosts that do not have proper reverse DNS, in 
accordance with Internet standard practice going back at least two 
years.  Again, we have yet to see any results.


	If I have not followed the proper escalation procedure, I would 
appreciate it if you would please let me know what the proper 
escalation procedure is.  I would also ask that you tell me where 
this escalation procedure is documented, because I'm certainly not 
aware of anything of this sort.

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