Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 21 2014, SM wrote: Hi Chris, At 11:18 21-03-2014, Chris Thompson wrote: We used to create lots of localhost.[subdomain].cam.ac.uk records, even to the extent of adding an record just for those institutions that had IPv6 enabled on their networks. But we have pretty much given up

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-23 Thread Alan Clegg
On 3/21/14, 2:18 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: But in the context of search lists an NXDOMAIN will just make the resolver go on to try the next entry. So in the case of search lists automatically generated from a domain entry, if localhost.astrology.cam.ac.uk doesn't exist, localhost.cam.ac.uk

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 3/21/14, 2:18 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: But in the context of search lists an NXDOMAIN will just make the resolver go on to try the next entry. So in the case of search lists automatically generated from a domain entry, if localhost.astrology.cam.ac.uk doesn't exist, localhost.cam.ac.uk will

localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Mitchell Kuch
Hello - I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain localhost in a 127.0.0.1 records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state and what the community considers best practice. RFC1537 states that zones should contain a localhost record, but it seems that practice was obsoleted by

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Casey Deccio
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Mitchell Kuch mi...@basejp.com wrote: Hello - I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain localhost in a 127.0.0.1 records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state and what the community considers best practice. RFC1537 states that zones

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/21/2014 9:03 AM, Casey Deccio wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Mitchell Kuch mi...@basejp.com mailto:mi...@basejp.com wrote: Hello - I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain localhost in a 127.0.0.1 records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Marco Davids (SIDN)
On 21-03-14 14:03, Casey Deccio wrote: I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain localhost in a 127.0.0.1 records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state and what the community considers best practice. I would take a look at the query logs for the zones in

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Mitchell Kuch
The only remotely valid use case that I have found was the default DNS monitoring rule for OpenNMS and other monitoring applications. Such a shame. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Marco Davids (SIDN) marco.dav...@sidn.nl wrote: To me, an NXDOMAIN-reply seems better On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 21 2014, Marco Davids (SIDN) wrote: On 21-03-14 14:03, Casey Deccio wrote: I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain localhost in a 127.0.0.1 records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state and what the community considers best practice. I would take

Re: localhoast A record?

2014-03-21 Thread SM
Hi Chris, At 11:18 21-03-2014, Chris Thompson wrote: We used to create lots of localhost.[subdomain].cam.ac.uk records, even to the extent of adding an record just for those institutions that had IPv6 enabled on their networks. But we have pretty much given up doing that for new subdomains.