On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> > > After a routing issue between us and an instance of the RFC1918 anycast > servers blackhole-[12].iana.org which caused all sorts of bizzare failures > within customer networks, I'm trying to figure out if there is a really > good reason why I shouldn't keep a copy of the 1918 zones on my local > recursive customer-facing DNS servers so breakage between us and these > servers won't cause grief in the future. > hrm, www.as112.net might have info you would like to see/read/implement. > So my questions are: > > 1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918 > in-addr zones on my servers? nope, I suspect: www.as112.net would like you to host one. > > 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. > probably you would get a copy of this when you turned up a set of hosts for www.as112.net :) > 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. > sure, the folks at www.as112.net might even have answers, and perhaps you could summarize back to the list? I am interested atleast...