[79420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The power of default configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed Apr 6 21:20:41 2005
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:20:15 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504061756550.5174@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/6/2005 5:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Why does BIND forward lookups for RFC1918 addresses by default?
As has been pointed out already, caches need to be able to ask other
(local) servers for the PTRs.
OTOH, it might make a good feature (and eventually maybe a BCP) to block
PTR queries for 1918 space from going to the roots and TLD servers.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
