[46973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Apr 19 13:31:43 2002
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 19 Apr 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > 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.
Besides, there's already an authoritative A record for 127.0.0.1:
warez.bofh.net. Or, um, at the moment it doesn't seem to be configured,
but that's historically been the correct answer.
-Bill
