Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:28:59 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: "Jason Canon" <jcanon@comtechnologies.com>, "Igor Roshchin" <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -r Message-ID: <199904222128.OAA28085@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:10:00 PDT." <000201be8d04$7b81ead0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
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--==_Exmh_2135045878P Content-Type: text/plain If memory serves me right, "David Schwartz" wrote: > I will repeat, it is an error to use private IPs in any way on > the global Internet. That includes attempting to resolve them using > the Internet's DNS system. They are supposed to be quarantined. If > you choose to use DNS and you choose to use private address space, > you are supposed to make sure they don't conflict. Hoping to inject some more Useful Information here...the following paragraphs regarding read-rfc-1918-for-details.iana.net are from a posting by Bill Manning to comp.protocols.dns.bind (Message-Id: <199904211922.AA06595@zed.isi.edu>): > This was coming from the authoritative servers for the RFC 1918 space > zones. It has been planned for more than a year. The data that drove > the change was the exponental increase in the number of queries that > these servers receive. This was an indication that firewall and NAT > designers were becoming "sloppy" and not following the RFC statement > that these addresses should not appear in the Internet. It appears > that besides the "sub-optimal" firewall & NAT implementations, there > are also other commercial packages that object to authoritative > replies. :) This effect was compounded by the terse lable that formed > the query response. > > And so the servers are (for now) back in the mode of silently discarding > queries. I have been told that the lable will be reworked to be > more informative and that I will receive instructions to re-enable > authoritative answers soon. (likely a few months out but I don't really > know when). Bruce. --==_Exmh_2135045878P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNx+UmqjOOi0j7CY9AQGh5wP9FAFsejg9oVb4JBmlM58pSliuTQcpYt88 Xyx+PXT/lseBXCmM3/aysaY1wQCXNzeGoHTh3QuHZfgavTkD/Q2T9IeK/MsQeEPu pQTF+yJtwVP9Wh9Ka2SgAa3lk3aM2DfkcyF/VM8lBz0e5q7rPmz3ak7dSB1doE9F /3ZQ9k7Kj+0= =R2WD -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_2135045878P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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