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

Emily Shepherd <emily@emilyshepherd.me> Mon, 26 September 2016 23:39 UTC

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:39:38 +0100
From: Emily Shepherd <emily@emilyshepherd.me>
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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost-00.txt
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Seems sensible to me.

As this proposal is in the name of consistency, is there an argument we 
should be strict and explicitly define *which* loopback address DNS 
servers must return when queried?

Also, as a nit-picky caveat: might there be a special case worth 
considering when a system is running a caching DNS server locally? In 
that case, it could theoretically be acceptable for a name resolution 
API / library to forward on the request.

> 2.  Item #4 is changed to read as follows:
>
>     Caching DNS servers MUST recognize localhost names as special,
>     and MUST NOT attempt to look up NS records for them, or otherwise
>     query authoritative DNS servers in an attempt to resolve
>     localhost names.  Instead, caching DNS servers 

Are we missing a 'MUST,' on the end of that last line?

Emily

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