[68782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS requests for 1918 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duane Wessels)
Tue Mar 16 15:28:55 2004
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:28:21 -0700 (MST)
From: Duane Wessels <cee4@packet-pushers.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <40575394.80601@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Is there something special about RFC1918 in this respect? Wouldn't
> these resolvers not work for all of the IN-ADDR.ARPA space? Wouldn't
> they be hitting the roots with all kinds of PTR queries?
Good question. Certainly I do see plenty of non-1918 PTR queries as well,
but I don't have good stats on that.
> If he has broken resolvers, but the ISP servers are sane, he'll
> obviously end up pounding the ISP servers and perhaps the IANA blackhole
> servers if the queries are unique, but not the root servers.
Agreed.
Duane W.
