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Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost

"Peter van Dijk" <peter.van.dijk@powerdns.com> Wed, 13 September 2017 08:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost
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Hello John,

On 13 Sep 2017, at 4:15, John Levine wrote:

> In article <63DA2E77-8507-4F25-8684-14EABF9A530E@powerdns.com> you 
> write:
>> Since we are doing a draft/RFC on what localhost is and is not, I
>> suggest we put some text in there banning (MUST NOT) the practice of
>> having localhost entries (at least those pointing to 127.0.0.1/::1?) 
>> in
>> auth zones. If there is agreement on this I am happy to contribute 
>> text.
>> This may mean having to say we are updating RFC 1912.
>
> Believe it or not, there are real non-loopback localhost domain names,
> like localhost.reddit.com.

That’s why I had (at least ..) in there. Non-loopback localhost names 
are not a problem, unless, perhaps via search lists, they confuse 
browsers into wrong trust levels.

> I agree that localhost.<foo> pointing to loopback is generally asking
> for trouble, but I am not at this point sufficiently confident that it
> is never ever a good idea to say MUST NOT rather than SHOULD NOT.  I
> can for example imagine ways that might make some kinds of debugging
> easier.

I would settle for SHOULD NOT. Can you elaborate on the debugging?

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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