[79410] in North American Network Operators' Group
The power of default configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Apr 6 18:01:01 2005
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:00:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g364z2jwqi.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Paul Vixie wrote:
> adding more. oh and as long as you're considering whether to restrict
> things to your LAN/campus/ISP, i'm ready to see rfc1918 filters deployed...
Why does BIND forward lookups for RFC1918 addresses by default? Why isn't
the default not to forward RFC1918 addresses (and martian addresses). If
a sysadmin is using BIND in a local network which uses RFC1918 address,
those sysdmins can change their configuration?
