Blackhole DNS
Andras Salamon
andras at dns.net
Fri Feb 22 05:37:41 UTC 2002
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:52:53AM +1100, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> The "caching" server here is likely to have both a RFC 1918
> address and a non RFC 1918. It will be getting queries for
> the relevant parts of in-addr.arpa that correspond to the
> RFC 1918 address being used. These queries should be
> answered by this server (or another internal server) and NOT
> looked up on the Internet.
>
> This is the same way as 127.in-addr.arpa (0.0.127.in-addr.arpa)
> should be on every caching server. It is address space private
> to the host. Queries for 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa should be answered
> locally.
>
> For IPv6 the following should all be local along with the ip6.int
> versions.
>
> 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa.
> 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa.
> 8.e.f.ip6.arpa. 9.e.f.ip6.arpa. a.e.f.ip6.arpa. b.e.f.ip6.arpa. (link local)
> c.e.f.ip6.arpa. d.e.f.ip6.arpa. e.e.f.ip6.arpa. f.e.f.ip6.arpa. (site local)
This sounds like a great summary of BCP. Reiterating the question
asked recently, is there a document that one can reference with this
information? If not, I'll add the above info to DNSRD.
-- Andras Salamon andras at dns.net
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