In message <alpine.osx.2.11.1611211518410.20...@ary.qy>, "John R Levine" wri tes: > > .localhost and .homenet don't have the escape to a different protocol > > and any error from the DNS will do for those not worried about a > > clean solution. These namespace are intended to be looked up in > > the DNS with local content. > > Well, maybe. On my computer, and on pretty much every computer running > some flavor of Unix or Linux, localhost comes from /etc/hosts and never > hits the DNS.
"telnet foo.localhost" and look at your DNS server's logs. I'm willing to bet you will see a lookup for foo.localhost/A and with high probability foo.localhost/AAAA. "localhost" will likely be looked up in /etc/hosts after trying every localhost.<search-list-element> in the DNS and before attempting "localhost" in the DNS if it is missing from /etc/hosts. This is only for A and AAAA lookups. Anything else which looks for something other than A or AAAA will hit the DNS. Mark > Regards, > John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
