So ISC has allowed BIND to build with some default zones being created. I
think this
is - to coin a phrase - suboptimal and yet more code I have to rip out of the
BIND distro...
but that is not the point of this missive... :)
I will use two of the automatically created zones to illistrate a potential
point and then
ask a question. Mark has "bracketed" the IPv4 space with the following two
zone stanzas:
0.in-addr.arpa.
and
255.255.255.255.in-addr.arpa.
clearly the first incalulates the entire 0/8 netblock... while the latter only
incalcualtes
an IPv4 /32 or a host entry.
historically, one would define the local network with preceeding zeros, e.g.
0.0.0.152 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 is the host .152 on the
local network
and only the "all-zeros" /32 or 0.0.0.0/32 was special - reserved for broadcast.
and yet we see the ISC code reserving the entire /8 as an automatic zone.
If there was any consistancy here, ISC should have created the zone
255.in-addr.arpa. or the 255/8 netblock
but they did not. They created a zone cut for a /32 - which (other than zome
of my own
older configurations) seems to be unique.
So the question - how common do we expect /32 delegations to become in future?
--bill
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