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Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Fri, 26 January 2018 19:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] WGLC for draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02
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Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
...
> If the intent is to require special handling of "localhost" in the
> platform's name to address lookup library (getaddrinfo(),
> gethostbyname(), ...), then the draft should say so, instead of
> talking about stub resolvers, which are only the DNS component of
> the platform's hostname resolution stack.

that's what it should say, and that's how it should say it. so, +1.

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P Vixie

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