> A tentative suggestion: maybe lists of this sort ought to be distributed
> via the DNS itself, with nameserver software encouraged to fetch them
> dynamically and act accordingly. Something along the lines of
> 
>  local-zones.arpa. PTR 0.in-addr.arpa.
>                    PTR 127.in-addr.arpa.
>                    PTR 254.169.in-addr.arpa.
>                    ...
>                    PTR 8.e.f.ip6.arpa.
>                    PTR 9.e.f.ip6.arpa.
>                    ...
> 
> Not that this would stop some implementors fetching the current value
> and fixing it in their code...
> 
> One would want local.zones.arpa (or whatever) to be signed, of course!

Which doesn't work in some of the senarios where you want this code
to come into play, i.e. firewalls that let RFC 1918 reverse queries out
but not let the replies come back.  The idea is to prevent the queries
leaving the nameservers in the first place.
 
Mark
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