[79838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC1918 in-addr.arpa local copies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Apr 16 00:19:51 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 16 Apr 2005 04:18:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20050415214707.K6263@corp.mt.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
fwc@mt.net ("Forrest W. Christian") writes:
> 1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918
> in-addr zones on my servers?
according to RFC 1918, you should do this.
> 2) I've dug around and haven't been able to find an example of a RFC1918
> zone file ala what's on the official servers. I'm assuming that these are
> basically just empty domain filas but I'd love to verify that this is the
> case. Of course, the blackhole servers I tried don't respond to AXFR.
an empty zone (except for the SOA and NS) works pretty well.
> 3) Alternatively, I could host a local anycast instance of these servers,
> but I can think of lots of good reasons why this might be bad.
more is better.
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Paul Vixie
