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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Domain Name Server Operations Working Group of the IETF. Title : IP Addresses that should never appear in the public DNS Author(s) : P. Hazel Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-01.txt Pages : Date : 18-Sep-01 This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practice for the Internet Community. It has two themes. Firstly, it reinforces the prohibition in [RFC 1918] about the appearance of private IP addresses in publicly visible DNS records. Secondly, the document discusses the problems that can be caused by the appearance of public addresses, or indirect references to them, when the service implied by the address or reference is inaccessible from the public Internet. Specifying a blanket prohibition in the second case is difficult because inaccessibility may arise from many causes, some possibly legitimate. Instead, the document points out some of the problems that can arise, and suggests that other means of achieving the desired effects should be used wherever possible. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-01.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-01.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.