Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost"?

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Sat, 12 August 2017 22:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost"?
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Ted Lemon wrote:
> ...
>
> To recap, my point is that fixing localhost and then relying on it
> doesn't fail safe, and there is reason not to be confident that
> implementations will conform, because they will appear to work even if
> they don't. ...

i'm only excerpting a small bit of ted's text, so that i can say:

+1

and, please everybody go read the rest if you didn't already.

-- 
P Vixie

[DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost"? Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mark Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… william manning
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Joe Abley
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Joe Abley
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Tony Finch
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Paul Vixie
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Robert Edmonds
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Matthew Pounsett
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… George Michaelson
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mark Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… John Levine
[DNSOP] Fwd: Status of "let localhost be localhos… william manning
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Erik Nygren
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Stuart Cheshire
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Robert Edmonds
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ray Bellis
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Peter van Dijk
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… John Levine
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Paul Hoffman
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Richard Barnes
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Paul Hoffman
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Paul Vixie
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Tony Finch
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Paul Hoffman
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Tony Finch
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mike West
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Ted Lemon
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Warren Kumari
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… John Levine
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… Mark Andrews
Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost… John R Levine