Delegating?

[Alex Moen]

One thing I have noticed:  Looking at our netblock, there is
a line "ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE" at the
bottom.  This sounds ominous to what I am trying to do...

Should I be worried???

Alex

>
> Alex Moen wrote:
>
> > Here's the question:  How do I "forward" or
> > "delegate" the authority
> > for our partner's /24's to them, without being
> > set up as a slave
> > server to their DNS servers?
>
> you want to delegate to them.  however it's most
> likely better to slave
> to them since if you actually assign the IPs to
> them you might have
> difficulty regaining control.  at least i know
> that's why our upstream
> prefers to SWIP them to us and then slave to our
> nameservers (if they
> add your nameservers to the zone file then
> everything will show up as
> authoritative).
>
> ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/swip/swipinstruction.txt
>
> otherwise you will need to fill out a form with
> ARIN delegating that
> space to their nameservers. it has to be at least
> a C block or you have
> to use RFC 2317 style delegation of course.  You
> could delegate that way
> in the first place although i'd avoid it if possible.
>
> you can find more specific information on ARIN's website