[DNSOP] Localhost entries in zones

"Antoin Verschuren" <Antoin.Verschuren@sidn.nl> Thu, 03 April 2008 10:19 UTC

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Hi,

I may have missed this, but I'd like to hear the lists opinion about
this article:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/0270.html
that states that localhost entries in zones should be discouraged.

I know that localhost entries were encouraged in RFC 1537 but that one
is obsolted by RFC 1912 which doesn't say anything anymore about
localhost entries, so no encouragement nor disencouragement.
I think that if localhost entries in zones should be discouraged, it
should come from the consensus of this WG.

Antoin Verschuren

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