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RFC 6303: Locally Served DNS Zones

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Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS) has shown that there are a number of DNS zones that all iterative resolvers and recursive nameservers should automatically serve, unless configured otherwise. RFC 4193 specifies that this should occur for D.F.IP6.ARPA. This document extends the practice to cover the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for RFC 1918 address space and other well-known zones with similar characteristics. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

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Document ID
RFC6303
Published
July 2011
Authors
M. Andrews
Status
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
10
Also known as
BCP163

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