[46971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Apr 19 12:25:11 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 19 Apr 2002 09:24:34 -0700
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> Why do we bother having "public" nameservers answering for this space at all?
>
> Why don't we have "blackhole-[12].iana.org" have A records of "127.0.0.1"?
127.0.0.1 is a convention, not a standard. and to the extent that it is ever
upgraded to a standard, i don't think putting A RR's pointing at other folks'
hosts into the IANA.ORG domain would be a polite thing to do.
