Aidan Williams wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Sure -- but to keep the load off the root, we need to be > *very* sure > >>that sites do pretend to be authoritative for them. > > > > will it help if we ship c.e.f.ip6.int/arpa zone files with BIND, > > just like 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa? > > > > Yes, potentially. Further, I would like to see a recommendation > that authoritative RFC1918 reverse maps are a default part of > name server boot files along the lines of RFC1912, Section 4.1. > > Stepping back for a moment, I think we are failing to note > that this is *not* just an IPv6 problem. > > The increasing volume of root queries for RFC1918 PTR maps is > presumably related to the increasing number of hosts on the > internet behind NAT boxes. We should expect internet growth > to continue and therefore that the number of bogus IPv4 queries > will also continue to grow unless some action is taken. > > We should get the IPv6 case right. However if we believe that > dual stack is the likely IPv6 deployment scenario we are only > addressing well less than half the immediate problem.
Fortunatly we have AS112 (www.as112.net), but looking at the stats eg http://www.ripe.net/as112/ it's a lot. Making RFC1918 and fec0:: and other 'special interest assigned' spaces a default for a nameserver could solve these problems. People wanting to use RFC1918 space could then still comment out the blackhole and redirect it somewhere else or define it locally. One could see a 'problem' where users will start having problems as their 'local reverse doesn't work' but the problem being the double definement. BIND and others warn for double definitions so that shouldn't be a big item certainly if a nice FAQ item is included. And it will save a lot of traffic which is currently still flowing to the rootservers or the as112 boxes. Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
