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

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 13 September 2017 23:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost
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On Sep 13, 2017, at 1:19 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> I concur with Mark that while localhost.<foo> is a problem,
> <foo>.localhost is not.  I've occasionally used that hack to pass
> traffice to various servers running on 127/8 addresses other than
> 127.0.0.1.

So we should expose end-users to attack because it's "occasionally" convenient for you to do this hack?

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