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Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for

  • From: Bill Woodcock
  • Date: Fri Apr 19 13:34:10 2002

      On 19 Apr 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
    > > Why do we bother having "public" nameservers answering for this space at all?
    > > Why don't we have "blackhole-[12].iana.org" have A records of "127.0.0.1"?
    >
    > 127.0.0.1 is a convention, not a standard.  and to the extent that it is ever
    > upgraded to a standard, i don't think putting A RR's pointing at other folks'
    > hosts into the IANA.ORG domain would be a polite thing to do.

Besides, there's already an authoritative A record for 127.0.0.1:
warez.bofh.net.  Or, um, at the moment it doesn't seem to be configured,
but that's historically been the correct answer.

                                -Bill