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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 -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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