On occasion, when a security defect is found in. , ISC issues a security advisory. Sometimes the Impact section of these advisories contains a qualification as to what kind of nameserver is affected by the defect, i.e. if the bug is known to affect only authoritative nameservers or only recursive nameservers.
The point of this is that, in fact, not all Italians are dark. In fact, the term Italian, as we use and know it today, is primarily a geopolitical designation, although it carries some ethnic and linguistic connotations also. Italy is the name of a peninsula. Italy as a political entity goes back only to 1861.
As a derogatory term for an Italian (1896) it is from Guinea Negro (1740s) black person, person of mixed ancestry; applied to Italians probably because of their dark complexions relative to northern Europeans, and after 1911 it was occasionally applied to Hispanics and Pacific Islanders as well.