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Re: Summary with further Question: Domain Name System protection


From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:21:15 +0000


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:57:17AM +0000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

5. 'bogon'in BIND configuration could be used to
filter requests from RFC1918 address;

      this should be pushed to
      the router.  don't waste CPU cycles 
      on the Nameserver.

Hosts tend to be a faster writeoff cycle than routers in companies I've
worked at, therefore getting the benefit of moores law about 25% faster
than the routers.  Turn on firewalling in the host. That said, I do
filter 1918 at my edge.


/vijay


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