[79450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The power of default configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Apr 7 14:31:36 2005
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:31:07 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504071419480.12430@web1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/7/2005 1:21 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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.
No, the cache would be authoritative for the zones, so it would null-sink
the queries instead of forwarding them to the resolving server
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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