On 08/12/2017 12:35 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > The document does the right thing on that front, as far as that goes, > but if this is to be effective I think that it shouldn't be an aside, > but should be the main point of the document. That is, the title of > the document should be "DNS servers should return NXDOMAIN for > localhost" and the abstract should say why, and then the bit about > stub resolvers translating "localhost" to a reachable identifier for > the localhost such as 127.1 or ::1 should be the thing that's > mentioned as an aside. I agree, this seems like a good addition to the doc. It makes explicit what we've discussed on-list, and it codifies what is already common practice in the wild, along with justification.
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