Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

[Simon Higgs <simon () higgs com>]

At 08:31 AM 4/19/2002 -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> this was sent personally, but i'm answering to the list.
>
> > It might help the A Root, at least, if the SOA record listed
> > bogus.root-servers.net instead of A.root-servers.net, and then a record
> > mapped bogus.root-servers.net to 127.0.0.1. That should keep Win2K and
> > follow-ons from sending dynamic updates to the root zone.

SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing 
email to bounce (amongst other things). Is there something out there 
specifically describing putting [your.domain].local in the SOA to achieve 
this? What is the rational behind this?


Best Regards,

Simon

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