Sweeping Lames - George Michaelson, APNIC Sec.

Synopsis

All RIRs are aware of the impact of reverse DNS delegations on their 
membership and the Internet at large. Recently, increased interest 
in reverse DNS problems has highlighted the large rate of 'lame' 
(or dysfunctional) reverse DNS. The APNIC secretariat is proposing a 
model based on work from the ARIN region, which tracks lame DNS 
registrations, and after suitable notice without repair, de-lists the DNS. 

This has immediate benefits for the general Internet and especially 'root' 
DNS services which are subject to excess traffic from these registrations. 

The mechanism proposed leaves substantive control with the existing resource 
manager, to re-list their reverse DNS when it is working.