To:
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:59:34 +0100
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<5.2.0.9.2.20030311195016.0280c948@mail.amaranth.net>
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Subject:
Re: "local" zones
At 8:00 PM -0500 2003/03/11, Daniel Senie wrote:
> How much damage would be caused by adding NS glue records to the
> root zone for .local pointing at 127.0.0.1? Sites which misconfigure
> and allow lookups for .local to leak out will be told to go ask
> themselves.
When using Rendezvous, not all machines have local nameservers.
You'd need to find the right multicast group and use that in the glue
for .local at the roots.
That's assuming that the multicast group in question is at a
fixed address in the standard and doesn't change. ;-(
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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