Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks


On May 6, 2010, at 11:14 PM, James Hess wrote:

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, L. Gabriel Somlo gso...@gmail.com  
wrote: ..
I wonder if DNS for GLOP/RFC3180 is still expected to work/be  
supported,

or should I just give up :)Thanks,


I am not sure,  but I believe  as a best practice,  RFC3180   is
considered basically defunct at this point, it's obvious that at least
the RDNS is neglected.   The problem is that it relied on mapping bits
from the AS number into the IP address bitspace.

Now that AS numbers have been extended to 4 bytes in length, and RIRs
are even about to stop differentiating between them  when allocating
AS numbers, or allowing anyone to request and be sure of getting a new
16-bit ASN.

It seems that it will be impossible for the scheme to be followed in  
IPv4.

A  more sensible  BCP  at this point would be to designate  the entire
223/8  to IRRs,  like was suggested by the BCP for  64512 -- 65535,
since most ASNs are not using GLOP addressing.



Look at RFC 5771

While it is no longer automatic, entities with 4 byte ASN can get  
multicast addresses from the

AD-HOC Block III (the old extended GLOP space).

Regards
Marshall



Mapping ASN bits onto multicast IP ranges is convenient but wasteful
too,  once you consider 2^16 ASNs.







--
-J







DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread L. Gabriel Somlo
Does anyone know what's going on with DNS for 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA ?

I get:

233.IN-ADDR.ARPA.   86400   IN  NS  FLAG.EP.NET.
233.IN-ADDR.ARPA.   86400   IN  NS  NIC.NEAR.NET.
233.IN-ADDR.ARPA.   86400   IN  NS  STRUL.STUPI.SE.
233.IN-ADDR.ARPA.   86400   IN  NS  NS.ISI.EDU.
;; Received 138 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(b.root-servers.net) in 91 ms

Of these, only FLAG.EP.NET actually seems to work;

NIC.NEAR.NET no longer seems to exist

STRUL.STUPI.SE returns SERVFAIL

NS.ISI.EDU returns REFUSED

I also tried to send email to hostmas...@ep.net to have a delegation
updated, but got a bounce...

I wonder if DNS for GLOP/RFC3180 is still expected to work/be supported,
or should I just give up :)

Thanks,
--Gabriel




Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread Antonio Querubin

On Thu, 6 May 2010, L. Gabriel Somlo wrote:


Does anyone know what's going on with DNS for 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA ?



Of these, only FLAG.EP.NET actually seems to work;

NIC.NEAR.NET no longer seems to exist

STRUL.STUPI.SE returns SERVFAIL

NS.ISI.EDU returns REFUSED

I also tried to send email to hostmas...@ep.net to have a delegation
updated, but got a bounce...

I wonder if DNS for GLOP/RFC3180 is still expected to work/be supported,
or should I just give up :)


I think this has been broken for a while now.  But if you ever figure out 
who can delegate the zones let me know :)


Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  t...@lava.net



Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread James Hess
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, L. Gabriel Somlo gso...@gmail.com wrote: ..
 I wonder if DNS for GLOP/RFC3180 is still expected to work/be supported,
 or should I just give up :)Thanks,

I am not sure,  but I believe  as a best practice,  RFC3180   is
considered basically defunct at this point, it's obvious that at least
the RDNS is neglected.   The problem is that it relied on mapping bits
from the AS number into the IP address bitspace.

Now that AS numbers have been extended to 4 bytes in length, and RIRs
are even about to stop differentiating between them  when allocating
AS numbers, or allowing anyone to request and be sure of getting a new
 16-bit ASN.

It seems that it will be impossible for the scheme to be followed in IPv4.
A  more sensible  BCP  at this point would be to designate  the entire
223/8  to IRRs,  like was suggested by the BCP for  64512 -- 65535,
since most ASNs are not using GLOP addressing.

Mapping ASN bits onto multicast IP ranges is convenient but wasteful
too,  once you consider 2^16 ASNs.

--
-J



Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread Pekka Savola

On Thu, 6 May 2010, James Hess wrote:

Now that AS numbers have been extended to 4 bytes in length, and RIRs
are even about to stop differentiating between them  when allocating
AS numbers, or allowing anyone to request and be sure of getting a new
16-bit ASN.


Then you may be interested to see this Last Call:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/mboned/current/msg01021.html
(draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-uni-based-mcast)


It seems that it will be impossible for the scheme to be followed in IPv4.
A  more sensible  BCP  at this point would be to designate  the entire
223/8  to IRRs,  like was suggested by the BCP for  64512 -- 65535,
since most ASNs are not using GLOP addressing.


Uhh. Take away the numbers from those who have already started using 
them?  Are you serious?


There were multiple attempts to the private etc. ASN parts of 233/8 to 
RIRs but these have failed (lack of interest?).  The current situation 
(RFC5771) is that this has been designated as AD-HOC Block III and 
is assignable from IANA.


The curious minds may also want to take a look at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-addrarch-06

(Comments welcome, this has been waiting the completion of 
abovementioned draft.)


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