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Re: The power of default configurations

  • From: Eric A. Hall
  • Date: Wed Apr 06 21:21:17 2005 
On 4/6/2005 5:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Why does BIND forward lookups for RFC1918 addresses by default?

As has been pointed out already, caches need to be able to ask other
(local) servers for the PTRs.

OTOH, it might make a good feature (and eventually maybe a BCP) to block
PTR queries for 1918 space from going to the roots and TLD servers.

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