After a routing issue between us and an instance of the RFC1918 anycast
servers blackhole-[12].iana.org which caused all sorts of bizzare failures
within customer networks, I'm trying to figure out if there is a really
good reason why I shouldn't keep a copy of the 1918 zones on my local
recursive customer-facing DNS servers so breakage between us and these
servers won't cause grief in the future.
So my questions are:
1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918
in-addr zones on my servers?
2) I've dug around and haven't been able to find an example of a RFC1918
zone file ala what's on the official servers. I'm assuming that these are
basically just empty domain filas but I'd love to verify that this is the
case. Of course, the blackhole servers I tried don't respond to AXFR.
3) Alternatively, I could host a local anycast instance of these servers,
but I can think of lots of good reasons why this might be bad.
Ideas? Comments?
--forrest
After a routing issue between us and an instance of the RFC1918 anycast
servers blackhole-[12].iana.org which caused all sorts of bizzare failures
within customer networks, I'm trying to figure out if there is a really
good reason why I shouldn't keep a copy of the 1918 zones on my local
recursive customer-facing DNS servers so breakage between us and these
servers won't cause grief in the future.
hrm, www.as112.net might have info you would like to see/read/implement.
So my questions are:
1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918
in-addr zones on my servers?
nope, I suspect: www.as112.net would like you to host one.
2) I've dug around and haven't been able to find an example of a RFC1918
zone file ala what's on the official servers. I'm assuming that these are
basically just empty domain filas but I'd love to verify that this is the
case. Of course, the blackhole servers I tried don't respond to AXFR.
probably you would get a copy of this when you turned up a set of hosts
for www.as112.net 
3) Alternatively, I could host a local anycast instance of these servers,
but I can think of lots of good reasons why this might be bad.
sure, the folks at www.as112.net might even have answers, and perhaps you
could summarize back to the list? I am interested atleast...
fwc@mt.net ("Forrest W. Christian") writes:
1) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't host a local copy of the RFC1918
in-addr zones on my servers?
according to RFC 1918, you should do this.
2) I've dug around and haven't been able to find an example of a RFC1918
zone file ala what's on the official servers. I'm assuming that these are
basically just empty domain filas but I'd love to verify that this is the
case. Of course, the blackhole servers I tried don't respond to AXFR.
an empty zone (except for the SOA and NS) works pretty well.
3) Alternatively, I could host a local anycast instance of these servers,
but I can think of lots of good reasons why this might be bad.
more is better.