Proposed resolution: PTR queries for 254.169.in-addr.arpa

Bernard Aboba <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:14:42 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.zeroconf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Here is a proposed resolution to the Issue:

"Mapping from IPv4 addresses to host names is conventionally done
by issuing DNS queries for names of the form,
"x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa." When used for link-local addresses, which
have significance only on the local link, it is inappropriate to
send such DNS queries beyond the local link.
DNS clients MUST NOT send unicast DNS queries for any name that
falls within the "254.169.in-addr.arpa." domain.

Recursive name servers MUST NOT allow these queries to
escape the local scope.  Recursive name servers MAY reply
with RCODE 3, or they MAY silently discard the request.

By default, recursive name server implementations SHOULD be
configured to act as if they were authoritative for an
empty 254.169.in-addr.arpa zone and return RCODE 3 for any
such query.  Implementations SHOULD allow this default to
be overridden.  Returning an RCODE 3 is the correct default
setting because it reduces the query load but also because if
the site administrator has not set up the reverse tree
corresponding to IPv4 Link-Local addresses in use,
returning RCODE 3 is in fact the correct answer."