Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 01:19:58PM +0000, Richmond wrote: >> Why do I see this? >> >> host cooperative.co.uk >> cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 > > Because whoever set up that DNS zone made an error. > > unicorn:~$ host cooperative.co.uk > cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1
Thanks for your reply and others. It doesn't seem like an appropriate use of the address to me, and I stared in disbelief when I saw it, thinking something had gone wrong. Even, for example, example.com has its own ip address. Or perhaps they should have returned an error like an.invalid. I guess they want to discourage its use but also prevent anyone grabbing it.
