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Re: Why is RFC1918 space in public DNS evil?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Mon Sep 18 15:21:49 2006

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From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:01 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Elijah Savage wrote:

> I've been directed to put all of the internal hosts and such into  
> the public
> DNS zone for a client.

Another option is split-horizon DNS for the internal stuff, if it  
never needs to be publicly visible.

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