---Reply to mail from Chip Christian about read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net 

> Yeah, we noticed this this morning.  I'm surprised there wasn't more 
> uproar.  It's definitely new.  I noticed it because I had built tcpd w/ 
> -DPARANOID, and was allowing 2 machines from outside my control telnet 
> access over a leased line into one of my boxes.  Well, when their 
> addresses started resolving to a not resolvable name, I started dropping 
> them immediately.  The solution of course was to start serving up an empty 
> reverse zone.
> 

it isnt affecting us, as we have an internal dns server which has maps for
our IPs (RFC 1918) that we use..  Perhaps doing mapping internally even if
its an empty zone will help..

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Bret McDanel                                    http://www.rehost.com
Realistic Technologies, Inc.                             973-514-1144

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