Re: DNS Blocking

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm () prime gushi org>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

> danm () prime gushi org ("Dan Mahoney, System Admin") writes:
>
> > What I was basically asking for was a "silently drop queries for X-domain"
> > option.  But one doesn't exist in bind.
>
> take a look at www.as112.net to see what happens to queries for
> 10.in-addr.arpa and its brothers.  you can easily set up a zone
> that will just confuse and make errors for whoever queries it:
>
>        @          SOA  localhost hostmaster.localhost
>                   NS   localhost
>        localhost  A    127.0.0.1
>        *          MX   0 localhost
>                   A    127.0.0.1
>
> (the specific name "localhost" is nec'y because glue searches
> aren't required to find wildcards.)
>
> if you put a zone like that in place on a server that's receiving
> unwanted queries for some zone, they will soon stop, or not.  you
> win either way -- the queries stop, or you laugh your ass off.

There weren't rfc1918.

-Dan

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> Paul Vixie

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