Blackhole DNS

[Andras Salamon]

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.

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