In message <[email protected]>, Anand Buddhdev <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 05/11/2020 14:12, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: >> Can someone (anyone) please explain to me why the following file does not >> exist? >> >> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/zones/185.in-addr.arpa-RIPE >> >> Who is responsible for generating the files in this directory? What is the >> process by which they are generated? What went wrong and who is going to >> fix it? > >The files in https://ftp.ripe.net/pub/zones/ are generated by the RIPE >NCC's reverse DNS provisioning system. The files published there are >"zonelet" files. They are meant to contain reverse DNS delegation >information for address space registered in the RIPE Database, but whose >parent zone operator is another RIR. For example, 192.in-addr.arpa is >operated by ARIN, but there are various address ranges in 192/8 >registered in the RIPE Database. So we publish the DNS information in >the "192.in-addr.arpa-RIPE" file. ARIN fetches this file periodically to >import the data in it into 192.in-addr.arpa. > >In contrast, 185/8 has been assigned to RIPE NCC by the IANA. So RIPE >NCC operates 185.in-addr.arpa. We have no reason to publish a zone file >for it on our FTP/HTTPS server. I submit to you that it would be more convenient and more consistant if you did do so anyway. >You can query this zone's name servers >directly if you want to see delegation information. >... >dig 185.in-addr.arpa axfr @pri.authdns.ripe.net > 185.in-addr.arpa.zone So let me see if understand this... In order for me to fetch a full set of -all- RIPE-generated reverse DNS delegation information, I must use some combination of dig/axfr -and- also and separately, FTP to fetch your "zonelets", yes? Do I need to explain why this is more complicated and entirely less convenient to script than just doing one or the other? Sigh. So I guess I now have to work out for myself, by a process of deduction, which /8 blocks are -not- represented by zonelet files on your FTP server so that I can then know which ones I have to do dig/axfr on. (I wonder eternally why life has to be so complicated. Today is no different.)
