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
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