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This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations WG of the IETF.
Title : Let 'localhost' be localhost.
Author : Mike West
Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2017-12-18
Abstract:
This document updates the treatment of the special-use domain name
"localhost" as specified in RFC6761, Section 6.3, with the goal of
ensuring that it can be safely relied upon as a name for the local
host's loopback interface. To that end, stub resolvers are required
to resolve localhost names to loopback addresses. Recursive DNS
servers are required to return "NXDOMAIN" when queried for localhost
names, making non-conformant stub resolvers more likely to fail and
produce problem reports that result in updates.
Together, these requirements would allow applications and
specifications to join regular users in drawing the common-sense
conclusions that "localhost" means "localhost", and doesn't resolve
to somewhere else on the network.
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