AS112

Many networks, including residential and enterprise networks, use what are known as private IP addresses. These addresses are not globally unique; the same address may be in use in thousands of networks around the Internet. Although the Domain Name System (DNS), is mostly thought of as converting domain names to IP addresses, it also converts IP addresses to names. And software in networks using private IP addresses will-by default-still send DNS queries for information about these private addresses out onto the public Internet... DNS servers outside of these networks cannot give useful answers to DNS queries about addresses inside a private network. These DNS servers have no way of knowing how those addresses are used. For this reason, DNS queries on the public Internet for private addresses, or other addresses which are not globally unique, are considered to be junk traffic. They consume Internet resources paid for by others, with no useful purpose... The AS112 Project is a..