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===Residential networking=== The domain name ''home.arpa'' was reserved by the Internet Engineering task force in May 2018 as a [[special-use domain name]] for non-unique DNS services in residential networking, to avoid the use of the top-level domain ''home.'', which would require DNSSEC signatures.{{Ref RFC|8375}} In addition, the use of ''home.'' led to domain name leakage to the Internet root name servers. The [[authoritative name server]]s for home.arpa are the AS112 [[blackhole server]]s<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375.html |title=Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' |last=Pfister |first=Pierre |last2=Lemon |first2=Ted |date=May 2018 |publisher=Internet Engineering Task Force |issue=RFC 8375}}</ref>, which prevent leaked queries for home.arpa from burdening the root servers<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6305.html |title=I'm Being Attacked by PRISONER.IANA.ORG! |last=Maton |first=William F. |last2=Abley |first2=Joe |date=July 2011 |publisher=Internet Engineering Task Force |issue=RFC 6305}}</ref>.
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