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 |
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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."