[as112-ops] [IANA #516549] Blackhole servers

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 21/12/2011 23:09, mohammed.el-shakweer at bell.ca wrote:

> Hello AS112-ops;
> 
> Regarding the blackhole servers, were there any issues in the past
> 10 days with these servers, as we were having problems getting responses
> for 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 private addressing space, sometimes no
> response or slow response. We realize that we should use an internal
> blackhole or configure the reverse zones for private addressing internal
> to avoid slow response from blackhole servers on the internet, which we
> plan to do soon, but if you can shed some light if there were any issues
> in the past 10 days that would be highly appreciated.

I believe ISC was testing BIND 10 on their AS112 instance. If you
happened to see prefixes from them, then you may have had trouble
getting responses for your queries.

Regards,

Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC