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Re: The power of default configurations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Apr 7 14:23:30 2005

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:21:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4255791D.7090307@ehsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> On 4/7/2005 1:02 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>
> > Would you really have to scream?
>
> If folks were used to just adding forwarder entries to named.boot, yes,
> since they'd also have to remember to undelegate authority for the
> relevant rfc1918 address space now too. If somebody setup a network using
> a subset of the address space from rfc1918 space they'd have to
> reconfigure appropriately too.

If they're just caching forwarded queries, as long as the servers they
forward to have such sink zones setup, it's not a problem...not for the
roots/in-addr.arpa servers anyway.

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