[members-discuss] New (silent) reverse dns checks

Hi all,

we just found out that RIPE seems to have silently integrated new
checks for reverse delegation of zones.
Its no longer possible to add or even change a zone if the nameservers
used by them are open recursors. The update will fail.
Yes - open recursors are (sometimes) bad. But there are legitimate
reasons to run them (freedom of speech, filtered resources etc). Once
properly configured (i.e. querys rate limited) they wont pose a threat.

I wasnt able to find any information on when this was implemented or if
this was even voted for (please someone supply me with links if
possible).

I dont know of any NIC/registrar that will deny the creation/update of
a domain name if the nameservers are recursors. I know that some will
warn but none will refuse it. Please fix me if there are some which
will indeed deny.

Of course i have created a ticket about this but it all went like "fix
the dns or we wont delegate".

So basically this is about 2 things: silently changing checks (if it
was indeed silent) and if those checks are really usefull or should
rather be dropped/changed to warnings.


Regards,
Jonas