RFC 6303 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2011

Locally Served DNS Zones

Overview

RFC 6303, “Locally Served DNS Zones”, is a Best Current Practice document published in July 2011 by M. Andrews. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

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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What “Best Current Practice” means

Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.

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