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

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Wed, 02 August 2017 14:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Status of "let localhost be localhost"?
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william manning wrote:
> ...
> if you are concerned that completion logic is broken in resolvers
> and the string "localhost" is not appended to the domain, then you
> really are asking for the root servers to backstop the query with an
> entry for localhost. and for the first 20 years of the DNS, there was
> an entry for localhost. in many of the root servers. it was phased
> out for several reasons, two key ones were DNSSEC and the fact that
> most resolvers had corrected their broken completion logic. There is
> no good reason to bring it back for special processing. It's just a
> string.

+1.

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P Vixie

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