In article <[email protected]> you write: >Since we are doing a draft/RFC on what localhost is and is not, I >suggest we put some text in there banning (MUST NOT) the practice of >having localhost entries (at least those pointing to 127.0.0.1/::1?) in >auth zones. If there is agreement on this I am happy to contribute text. >This may mean having to say we are updating RFC 1912.
Believe it or not, there are real non-loopback localhost domain names, like localhost.reddit.com. I agree that localhost.<foo> pointing to loopback is generally asking for trouble, but I am not at this point sufficiently confident that it is never ever a good idea to say MUST NOT rather than SHOULD NOT. I can for example imagine ways that might make some kinds of debugging easier. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
