[dns-operations] Looking for a public blackhole/sinkhole IP address

[Joe Abley]

On 26 Nov 2014, at 14:06, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:

> What's wrong with 127.0.0.1? It makes it clear what the intent is, and
> you don't get a much more distributed sinkhole than that...

I'm always wary of using 127.0.0.1 for anything that doesn't really mean "you should talk to yourself". Without a comprehensive knowledge of the impact, you don't know what you're blowing up.

> If there really is a use case, let's try and get a block allocated,
> and encourage folk to anycast -> null0 for this.

https://github.com/ableyjoe/draft-jabley-well-known-sinkhole

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Joe