still do... both localhost. 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. ::1.ip6.arpa. #
# yeah yeah... shoot me --bill On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:48:45AM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote: > At 12:19 +0200 4/3/08, Antoin Verschuren wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I may have missed this, but I'd like to hear the lists opinion about > >this article: > >http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/0270.html > >that states that localhost entries in zones should be discouraged. > > My problem with that doc is it says "uh, don't operate DNS servers if > you make mistakes." Well, I am referring to the problem of > "localhost A 127.0.0.1" not having the trailing (FQDN) dot which > opens the doors to problems. > > Here are two rules to combat this: > > 1) Okay, no one forget the dot, OK? > 2) Unless. you. put. dots. after. every. word. for. a. week., you. > are. prevented. from. ever. typing. named. . > > >I know that localhost entries were encouraged in RFC 1537 but that one > >is obsolted by RFC 1912 which doesn't say anything anymore about > >localhost entries, so no encouragement nor disencouragement. > >I think that if localhost entries in zones should be discouraged, it > >should come from the consensus of this WG. > > OTOH, I have in the past been religious about including > localhost(dot) in both the forward and reverse zones of my servers. > But I don't go to church anymore. I forget why I dropped the > practice, I mean putting in the localhost(dot), not the church thing, > but I know I wasn't happy with it. > > Thinking, thinking, no, can't recall the reason now. Maybe with time > and discussion I will. > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Edward Lewis +1-571-434-5468 > NeuStar > > Never confuse activity with progress. Activity pays more. > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop