Re: RFC1918 in-addr.arpa local copies

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

fwc () mt net ("Forrest W. Christian") writes:

> 1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918
> in-addr zones on my servers?

according to RFC 1918, you should do this.

> 2) I've dug around and haven't been able to find an example of a RFC1918
> zone file ala what's on the official servers.  I'm assuming that these are
> basically just empty domain filas but I'd love to verify that this is the
> case.   Of course, the blackhole servers I tried don't respond to AXFR.

an empty zone (except for the SOA and NS) works pretty well.

> 3) Alternatively, I could host a local anycast instance of these servers,
> but I can think of lots of good reasons why this might be bad.

more is better.
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Paul Vixie