The power of default configurations

Thu Apr 7 01:20:15 UTC 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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