The power of default configurations

Eric A. Hall ehall at ehsco.com
Sat Apr 9 03:52:54 UTC 2005



On 4/8/2005 6:19 PM, just me wrote:

> I don't really want to speak for anyone else here, but it always 
> appeared to me that the problem Vix keeps mentioning is queries 
> with 1918 SOURCE ADDRESSES, not 1918-space queries. 
>
> This thread, like every nanog thread, has completely lost focus of 
> the original issue, and devolved into some brain-damaged solution to 
> an imagined problem.

I don't think it's a bad question. We just went through a similar talk in
the zetroconf wg about local addresses. Besides, the question wasn't
Paul's in the first place.

| From: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>
| To: nanog at merit.edu
| Subject: The power of default configurations
| Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504061756550.5174 at clifden.donelan.com>
|
| 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?

Sorry we are bothering you are mail spool.

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