Re: [cobalt-users] Denied AXFR from ripe.net

["Dan Houghton" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, aljuhani wrote:

>

> > Hello List.

> >

> > I have my DNS not to allow zone tarnsfer requests from Outside my Hosts.
Last

> > night I have configured a new website (MyDomain.com).

> >

> > Today, I have found a denied AXFR message as below that came from

> > hostcount.ripe.net.

> >

> > Feb 4 14:49:48 ns named[29642]: denied AXFR from [193.0.0.63].59572 for

> > "MyDomin.com" IN (acl)

> >

> > Question. Should I allow ripe to explore my zones?

> >

>

> Probably some kind of test. Sometimes test are done to see just how many

> screwed-up nameservers there are out there.

>

> ignore it.

RIPE run a continuous count of the number of hosts and the data can be
viewed at:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount

RIPE are one of the 4 LIR's responsible for IP (IPv4 & IPv6) allocation:

APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) - Asia/Pacific Region

ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) - Americas and Sub-Sahara
Africa

LACNIC (Regional Latin-American and Caribbean IP Address Registry) - Latin
America and some Caribbean Islands

RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens) - Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and
African countries located north of the equator

You can ignore these but if you're a nice person then it's good to allow
this host to pull the transfers.

Dan