[dns-operations] 192.0.32.10 is for example.com

Paul Vixie paul at redbarn.org
Tue Oct 4 12:26:04 UTC 2016



John Kristoff wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:50:36 +0000
> Paul Vixie<paul at redbarn.org>  wrote:
>
>> it's the wrong thing to do. do i have to prove damage to get a reaction?
>
> Is this in part a passive DNS problem?  I imagine if someone were using
> 192.0.2.1, addresses reserved for private use or documentation
> purposes, or other unused address space that could be easily filtered
> out as unassigned to any specific organization this wouldn't bother you?

actually, no.

if someone has a reason to use these addresses, and that reason is 
nonmalicious, then i'd become unbothered.

it's because i expect it's often the result of ignorance, or ill intent, 
that i hate seeing this in pDNS.

-- 
P Vixie




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