[H-GEN] interesting routing

[Michael Anthon]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)

> > I would have thought that the top level server would ignore (or at
> > least return an error) for any addresses in the defined 
> range of private
> > addresses.
> 
> Why would you think that?  Returning a bogus name is less harmful to
> most clients than failing.
> 

Why would I think that?  Probably because until the last day or so, that
seems to be EXACTLY what has been happening.  Pardon me for being stupid,
but if they were supposed to return a bogus name, why have they not been
doing this before?

> > This is annoying since I am seeing my local address space resolve to
> > something owned by someone else.  
> 
> If your local network wants to resolve those addresses, then 
> your local
> nameserver had better answer queries for them, or at least not forward
> them out.  Add an authoritative zone.  End of story.

As I did suggest.  I will extend my local zone to include the whole
10.0.0.0/8 subnet.


Cheers

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