[enum-wg] Delegation of 9.3.e164.arpa / ENUM DNS Quality

Addendum: it seems that there is a similar issue with another delegation 
right now - I have just raised that with the NCC as well.

Best,

	-C.

Carsten Schiefner wrote:
> All,
> 
> this has been fixed on Wednesday, 3 May 06.
> 
> Thanks to all who have taken care of the issue.
> 
> Best,
> 
>     Carsten
> 
> Otmar Lendl wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> domain:         9.3.e164.arpa
>> descr:          Italy ENUM Mapping
>> nserver:        dns.istsupcti.it
>> nserver:        dns2.istsupcti.it
>> remarks:        Ministero delle Comunicazioni - 
>> http://www.comunicazioni.it
>> remarks:        Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle 
>> tecnologie dell'Informazione
>> remarks:        http://www.iscom.gov.it
>>
>> but:
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> 9.3.e164.arpa ns @dns.istsupcti.it
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>>
>> and
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> 9.3.e164.arpa ns @dns2.istsupcti.it
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4925
>> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;9.3.e164.arpa.            IN    NS
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> arpa.            3600    IN    SOA    ns1.istsupcti.it. 
>> administrator.istsupcti.it. 2006022816 900 600 86400 3600
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> Some people seem to view that as they only run a trial (if at all) on
>> their ENUM country-code delegation, nameserver performance and
>> reliability does not matter.
>>
>> This is wrong. ENUM is in production in other countries. A lot of
>> SIP proxies query e164.arpa for all calls to E.164 numbers.
>> That includes calls to countries where ENUM is not in production yet.
>>
>> Calls to Italy are thus running into a DNS timeout.
>> This is not good.
>>
>> So please: Even if you are not in production with your country-code:
>>
>>      PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR NAMESERVERS ANSWER.      EVEN IF ALL 
>> THEY EVER SEND IS NXDOMAIN.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> /ol