is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for

Paul Vixie vixie at vix.com
Fri Apr 19 16:24:34 UTC 2002


> Why do we bother having "public" nameservers answering for this space at all?
> 
> Why don't we have "blackhole-[12].iana.org" have A records of "127.0.0.1"?

127.0.0.1 is a convention, not a standard.  and to the extent that it is ever
upgraded to a standard, i don't think putting A RR's pointing at other folks'
hosts into the IANA.ORG domain would be a polite thing to do.



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