FWIW, and with the caveat that I am not a **real** DNS expert.
On 10 May 2021, at 14:52, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
I've created PR #7039 that makes "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 and
::1 without using the resolver [1].
The point of this is to make sure localhost is the local host for
sure.
I think it makes sense to move [[RFC6761][]] compliance inside the
application.
curl's --resolve option and its libcurl counterpart still allows a
user to make localhost URL's connect to another IP address, just like
for any other name.
Compliance with [[RFC6761]] should surely have priority over
consistency. 8-)
Your feedback and thoughts on this are most welcome!
€0,02
/Niall
[RFC6761]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.3
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