please deactivate services by default!

Carl Byington carl at five-ten-sg.com
Thu Sep 25 22:43:34 UTC 2008


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On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Perhaps there should be a diagnostic for that added somewhere to make
> it 
> more obvious. 

That would be nice.

> By the way, what is supposed to happen when you use 
> private addressing but don't provide your own dns for it?   Does it 
> annoy the root servers to get all those reverse lookup queries for 
> ranges that don't have public servers?

Yes, it does annoy them. See <http://www.bind9.net/dnshealth> for some
gory details. Bind 9.5.1 includes (will include?) support for automatic
empty zones to cover those queries.

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