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: Regarding HMAC-SHA256 and RSASHA512 key generation algorithm in dnssec-keygen

2014-03-21 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hello Evan, Evan Hunt e...@isc.org writes: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:34:45AM +0100, Carsten Strotmann wrote: there could be a hard-link from a name like tsig-keygen to dnssec-keygen which changes the type of key created to -n HOST. That would not require any change to the existing

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.