Re: The power of default configurations

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>]

On 4/7/2005 1:21 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> If they're just caching forwarded queries, as long as the servers they
> forward to have such sink zones setup, it's not a problem...not for the
> roots/in-addr.arpa servers anyway.

No, the cache would be authoritative for the zones, so it would null-sink
the queries instead of forwarding them to the resolving server

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