Question: resolution of private IP addresses

["Greg Cipollone" <]

Dear all,

I have a simple question regarding the resolution of hostnames with private
IP addresses.

One of our corporate customers would like to (mis)use DNS to allow the
resolution of intranet hosts. The customer operates its own global VPN but
for operational reasons cannot install / manage local DNS it each and every
of its locations. Also, the customer does not want to operate a centralised
intranet DNS service as the Internet connectivity, which is local in each
country, in some of its remote locations would be severely affected (as DNS
requests would take inordinate amount of time).

I have tried to research this but could not find anything that would be
prevent the resolution to private IP addresses. The main concern is that
ISP's would filter out their DNS cache to prevent this.

Any comments?

Best regards,

Greg Cipollone
Technischer Direktor


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