Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> writes: > But of course, there _is_ a name "localhost" in the DNS. > It's already defined, in the RFCs, to this effect.
You can probably have your cake and eat it too by saying "sure, hypothetically it exists in the DNS because it's magically reserved in an RFC; but there is no data for it so any queries for it for any type will always return 'does not exist'". See! Problem solved! Returning anything other than NXDOMAIN and NSEC* for it is crazy, because the reality is that the name does not exist in the root zone data (and should not exist). Let's not start adding special exceptions. We could do something crazy like "return NXDOMAIN" and don't set the AA bit, because the DNS is not authoritative for that domain (and others, like .onion). But I'm not sure that helps anyone, and adds unneeded complexity to an already too complex code base. -- Wes Hardaker USC/ISI _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
