On 14. 01. 25 12:56, Robert Wagner wrote:
I wanted to better understand the use-case of having a DNS server
provide localhost lookup.
TL;DR Mistakes are being made.
It does not serve 'legitimate' purpose by itself, it just lowers cost of
leaked nonsense queries.
I guess it applies to most (all?) special-use names: The local
authoritative zone is to defined to cut down the nonsense traffic which
is leaking to the network. In the ideal world none of this would be
necessary.
Hope it helps.
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Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium
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