cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

DNS blocked for private addresses?

bobpullen
Community Gaffer
Community Gaffer
Posts: 16,887
Thanks: 4,979
Fixes: 316
Registered: ‎04-04-2007

Re: DNS blocked for private addresses?

Quote from: RoBorg
  • Can anyone from Plusnet confirm that 192.168 addresses are blocked from resolving

Our caching servers will not resolve a hostname pointing to private address space. As others have alluded to, it's not particularly good practice to do this anyway.

Bob Pullen
Plusnet Product Team
If I've been helpful then please give thanks ⤵

30FTTC06
Pro
Posts: 2,286
Thanks: 108
Fixes: 4
Registered: ‎18-02-2013

Re: DNS blocked for private addresses?

I may have to reconsider my cache forwarding options  Lips_are_sealed
npr
Pro
Posts: 1,898
Thanks: 119
Fixes: 9
Registered: ‎21-01-2013

Re: DNS blocked for private addresses?

Unbound can be configured to not resolve private ip addresses.  Cheesy