Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-16 Thread cool hand luke
On 01/15, Bill Owens wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:55:44PM -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote: Loopback is anti-social; an apparent attempt to make the client waste resources connecting to itself. In legal terms, one might call this an attractive nuisance. You're quite right; that's why I have

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-15 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:55:44PM -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote: If the domain owner *really* feels that they have to publish *some* address record for a particular name, but there is no available service at that name, then the null or unspecified address (IPv4 = 0.0.0.0, IPv6 = ::0) is the

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On 2014-01-12 10:04, Chris Thompson wrote: On Jan 11 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote: [...snip...] (2) There is no requirement that a domain name refer to the Web site for that domain. I personally don't like that (for no special reason), and neither apparently does the owner of this domain, who

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Thompson as IP Register
On Jan 14 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On 2014-01-12 10:04, Chris Thompson wrote: [...] That would be more plausible if www.p3net.net actually resolved to something, rather than giving NXDOMAIN ... How interesting. From here I see (and saw before I posted): ;; ANSWER SECTION:

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread Tony Finch
Joseph S D Yao j...@tux.org wrote: On 2014-01-12 10:04, Chris Thompson wrote: That would be more plausible if www.p3net.net actually resolved to something, rather than giving NXDOMAIN ... How interesting. From here I see (and saw before I posted): ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.p3net.net.

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread WBrown
From: Tony Finch d...@dotat.at ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.p3net.net. 0 IN A 199.101.28.20 That IP address indicates that your ISP is lying to you. It belongs to Skye By Nominum which is a cloud DNS service. I guess this is Skye Search since that sounds like a rent-seeking scheme

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
If the domain owner *really* feels that they have to publish *some* address record for a particular name, but there is no available service at that name, then the null or unspecified address (IPv4 = 0.0.0.0, IPv6 = ::0) is the appropriate value to put there. Loopback is anti-social; an

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On 2014-01-14 09:56, Chris Thompson as IP Register wrote: ... 199.101.28.20 seems to be search.dnsassist.verizon.net. Are you sure that the nameservers you are using aren't doing friendly rewriting of NXDOMAIN responses for you? ... Ack. Good thing you can't see how embarrassed I'm blushing.

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Jan 11 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote: (2) There is no requirement that a domain name refer to the Web site for that domain. I personally don't like that (for no special reason), and neither apparently does the owner of this domain, who forces people to go to the trouble of typing in

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-13 Thread Eduardo Bonsi
On 1/10/14, 8:36 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: There seems to be a pile of misconceptions here. Joseph, 1. No one from this list that answered to my original question actually showed any degree of confusion, (including myself). There were only observations on the subject, nothing more... 2. All

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-13 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 01/13/14 03:43, Barry Margolin wrote: In article mailman.2022.1389603219.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On Jan 11 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote: (2) There is no requirement that a domain name refer to the Web site for that domain. I

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jan 11 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote: [...snip...] (2) There is no requirement that a domain name refer to the Web site for that domain. I personally don't like that (for no special reason), and neither apparently does the owner of this domain, who forces people to go to the trouble of

Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Eduardo Bonsi
I have an issue happening here. I actually do have a vague idea what it is but I am not real sure how is happening and how to avoid it. I was doing a research the other day and landed on this domain; p3net.net I found a little strange when I logged into this domain because rather than seeing

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Alan Clegg
On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Eduardo Bonsi beart...@pacbell.net wrote: I have an issue happening here. I actually do have a vague idea what it is but I am not real sure how is happening and how to avoid it. I was doing a research the other day and landed on this domain; p3net.net Yes,

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-01-10 12:25, Alan Clegg wrote: On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Eduardo Bonsi beart...@pacbell.net wrote: I have an issue happening here. I actually do have a vague idea what it is but I am not real sure how is happening and how to avoid it. I was doing a research the other day and

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread WBrown
From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Yes, it seems that they have an A record for that label that provides the IP address 127.0.0.1. You probably want to ask the owner of the zone about this, as I?m not sure what the community can do about it. They have an MX record, so perhaps the domain is

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-01-10 12:36, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Yes, it seems that they have an A record for that label that provides the IP address 127.0.0.1. You probably want to ask the owner of the zone about this, as I?m not sure what the community can do about it. They have

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread King, Harold Clyde (Hal)
-Original Message- From: Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 at 15:47 To: Bind Users bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost On 2014-01-10 12:36, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: From: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Yes, it seems

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Eduardo Bonsi
Thanks everyone for the input on this matter! Dave Warren said: ...And less A records if they don't intend to do anything but email. But it's an imperfect world. No doubt it is! Like I said, it is not a big deal! Is not that people are able to re-route anything. That just happens because my

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread /dev/ph0b0s
On 01/10, Eduardo Bonsi wrote: I know how it is happening and my concern was if that could generate any technical or security problems on my site. no ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On 2014-01-10 15:01, Eduardo Bonsi wrote: ... It seems like they have their domain configuration A Record pointed to the localhost. We all know that the localhost is not routable outside of the internet. Therefore I am sure their website cannot resolve out of the 127.0.0.1. In addition to that,