Authoritative Server - Referrals to root

[Joe Greco]

> > Watching with some amusement the raging RFC1918 debate over in NANOG, 
> > I'll
> > even note that our authoritative nameservers claim authority for the
> > relevant in-addr.arpa zones, plus an artificial TLD aptly named 
> > "internal",
> > and our recursive resolvers are configured with zone stanzas listing
> > them as type forward; forward only pointing at our authoritatives.
> >
> > But of course that's how we intend for it all to operate.  Tough nuts 
> > to
> > whoever tries to open a new TLD named "internal".  :-)
> 
> Nope. It'll be tough nuts for you and your users if the TLD "internal" 
> gets created one day.

Not really.  Use your head.

... JG
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