At 5:59 PM +0000 11/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so WHO is the "owner" of that IP data, the zone admin for "example.org" or the machine admin for "ns1.example.org"?
The zone admin for sure. It is the registration of the domain name that is specifying the address records of the name servers.
The reason I say "for sure" comes from an experience of Harald Alvestrand. (I can't find a URL referencing the problem.) Some years ago one of his slave servers was in a domain whose registration expired and was taken up by a different registrant. Had he registered the IP address of the slave he intended to be using, it would have been easier to debug why every Nth query seemed to get answered incorrectly.
historically, the HOST has had an independent admin, precisely because they control the IP's used by the machine, not the zone admin.
Historically, we didn't worry about domain name registrations changing hands. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis +1-571-434-5468 NeuStar Think glocally. Act confused. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop