[dns-operations] Delegation to IPs?

[Roy Arends]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:27:31PM +0100,
>  Roy Arends <roy at dnss.ec> wrote
>  a message of 48 lines which said:
>
>> 2) let resolvers configure local zones for numeric hostnames.
> ...
>> All these silly hacks will allow these misconfigs to exist,
>
> Do you really regard 2) as a "silly hack"?

Yes.

> Because it is basically
> what is suggested in Internet-Draft
> draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-01.

It is not. What is proposed there is rfc 1918/3330 and v6 specific  
zones. I think numeric hostnames are out of scope for that document.

>
>> Option (2): I can't really see anyone willing to configure a zone
>> that has 2^32 records.
>
> Why 2^32 records? 256 empty zones are enough.

enough for what? RCODE=3 doesn't need any zone. RCODE=0, including  
positive responses that coantain: x.x.x.x A x.x.x.x need 2^32  
records, or some server side synthesis.

> Nobody suggested to make
> "Delegation to IPs" work, quite the opposite...

I'm saying that it has been suggested in the past.

Roy