The power of default configurations

Wed Apr 6 22:15:51 UTC 2005

> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:00:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: The power of default configurations

> 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?

RFC1918 space is space you can use inside of an organization in the
same way you could use non-RFC1918 space. If a program would treat it
differently that would only make sense if that program could only be
used in such a way that it would *have* to treat it differently.

Regards,
JP Velders