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The power of default configurations

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Apr 06 18:02:44 2005 
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Paul Vixie wrote:
> adding more.  oh and as long as you're considering whether to restrict
> things to your LAN/campus/ISP, i'm ready to see rfc1918 filters deployed...

Why does BIND forward lookups for RFC1918 addresses by default?  Why isn't
the default not to forward RFC1918 addresses (and martian addresses).  If
a sysadmin is using BIND in a local network which uses RFC1918 address,
those sysdmins can change their configuration?