Dns Creates Reverse Lookup Zones By Default
There is nothing special about these zones in comparison to any other reverse lookup zones you may create and manage. According to the RFC, every DNS server should be authoritative for the following three reverse lookup zones. 0.in-addr.arpa.127.in-addr.arpa.255.in-addr.arpa The reason for this is that clients may sometimes query for standard IP addresses such as 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 (loopback), and 255.255.255.255 (broadcast). By being authoritative for the zones corresponding to these queries, the DNS server will avoid unnecessary recursion requests sent to the root servers....