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

"Peter van Dijk" <peter.van.dijk@powerdns.com> Thu, 14 September 2017 12:03 UTC

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

On 13 Sep 2017, at 18:33, John Levine wrote:

>> I would settle for SHOULD NOT. Can you elaborate on the debugging?
>
> There is something strange going on with my remote server, and I use
> localhost.mydomain so a little debugging server on my own computer
> can steal state and see whats going on.
>
> On the other hand, I could do this just as well:
>
> gazornplotz.mydomain IN A 127.0.0.1
>
> so never mind.  Still not sure I haven't missed something, though.

But now (with either name) you are exposing users of your server to the 
exact problems described in http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/270. 
Why not use /etc/hosts instead, so you only expose yourself?

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

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