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Our lead DNS administrator sent out this message and as the Program Manager I am trying to understand the rationale for the the change.
For those of you who host your own internal DNS servers in your lab/dev/test environments:
-If you’re using ‘root hints’ that point to the IP’s listed below, you need to reconfigure them instead as ‘forwarders’ to the same
-Those teams who host their own DNS should understand what this means
Here was the reason and I am looking for some deeper info to understand why...?
Impact
Any private DNS servers/domains (non IT supported/managed)) using root hints to caching servers will have the possibility of resolving split brain records to the Internet IP address rather than the Internal IP address
For those of you who host your own internal DNS servers in your lab/dev/test environments:
-If you’re using ‘root hints’ that point to the IP’s listed below, you need to reconfigure them instead as ‘forwarders’ to the same
-Those teams who host their own DNS should understand what this means
Here was the reason and I am looking for some deeper info to understand why...?
Impact
Any private DNS servers/domains (non IT supported/managed)) using root hints to caching servers will have the possibility of resolving split brain records to the Internet IP address rather than the Internal IP address
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