Hi, Am Freitag, den 19.03.2010, 16:45 +0100 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:30 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > But localhost does not seem the perfect choice either: > > „The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in > > host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the > > loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use > > would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.“ > > so I am not convinced. The other reserved TLDs are of course even worse > > (.test, .invalid, .example). > > > > What do you think? > I think the meaning "loop back IP address" is really just for the domain > name (not the domain) "localhost." (as absolute DNS address).... > Nobody said, that one cannot create subdomains thereof, or that such > subdomains may not have other meanings.
fair enough, I’ll change it to gateway.localhost right away. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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