On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:18:32PM -0700, David A. Ulevitch wrote:
<quote who="Richard A Steenbergen">
Is it really enough traffic that you, as a root server operator, can't just suck it up and deal? Sure there are going to be a few folks who are misconfigured, but I can't imagine that it is enough to cause operational issues.
No, no operational issues at all from RFC1918 space....
http://www.as112.net/ (just to drop the most well documented example...)
That looks like a 1918 issue to me... Lets be clear about the difference between a DNS query for 1918 space and a DNS query sources from 1918 space which can never be returned too. Yes I'm sure it is annoying, but the questions are: How much EXTRA load does it really place on the rootservers? Is it really so much load that you can't just chalk it up to a normal part of the service being provided? Or to put it another way: How much computing power would I need to buy you so that I never have to hear complaints about queries from 1918 space on a mailing list again? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)