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Re: I-D Action: draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost-00.txt

Emily Shepherd <emily@emilyshepherd.me> Tue, 27 September 2016 21:28 UTC

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:28:11 +0100
From: Emily Shepherd <emily@emilyshepherd.me>
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost-00.txt
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:19:49PM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
>I don't see why.  You're allowed to use common sense when interpreting 
>RFCs, and the message here is clearly that if you want to interoperate 
>you do not send queries for *.localhost out of your computer. The 
>twisty way my or your internal DNS setup works is out of scope.

Fair enough; it was more the concern that it might end up having 
problematic unintended side effects but I probably am just overthinking 
things :)

Emily

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