The power of default configurations

Thu Apr 7 18:17:01 UTC 2005

On 4/7/2005 1:02 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> Would you really have to scream?

If folks were used to just adding forwarder entries to named.boot, yes,
since they'd also have to remember to undelegate authority for the
relevant rfc1918 address space now too. If somebody setup a network using
a subset of the address space from rfc1918 space they'd have to
reconfigure appropriately too.

All anybody really cares about is that these queries aren't beating up the
root/gtld servers, so adding a check to the referral-chasing would solve
that problem and wouldn't impose additional work on the users.

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