Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-25 Thread Tony Finch
Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > On 6/21/21 11:00 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > > That advice is out of date: nowadays you should not put any localhost > > entries in the DNS, because it can cause problems for web browser security. > > Modern software should suppress queries for localhost so they ne

Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.06.21 um 03:22 schrieb Grant Taylor via bind-users: Tony's statements surprised me enough that I shaved them for later deep read and pondering.  That time has now come. On 6/21/21 11:00 AM, Tony Finch wrote: That advice is out of date: nowadays you should not put any localhost entries

Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-24 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
Tony's statements surprised me enough that I shaved them for later deep read and pondering. That time has now come. On 6/21/21 11:00 AM, Tony Finch wrote: That advice is out of date: nowadays you should not put any localhost entries in the DNS, because it can cause problems for web browser se

Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-21 Thread techlists
Thank you Kevin and Tony!! On 2021-06-21 10:07, Kevin Darcy via bind-users wrote: [ Classification Level: GENERAL BUSINESS ] That chapter doesn't show any PTR records, for the reverse zones of any *public* address range, pointing back to a "localhost" name. It only shows a PTR record in the r

Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-21 Thread Kevin Darcy via bind-users
[ Classification Level: GENERAL BUSINESS ] That chapter doesn't show any PTR records, for the reverse zones of any *public* address range, pointing back to a "localhost" name. It only shows a PTR record in the reverse zone for the 127.0.0/24 private range, which is what enables a reverse lookup f

Re: Managing localhost

2021-06-21 Thread Tony Finch
techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > > This book : > https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/dns-and-bind/0596100574/ch04.html says I > should manage the localhost within my zone (SOA) and reverse lookup / PTR. That advice is out of date: nowadays you should not put any localhost entries in the DNS,