Sites that points their A Record to localhost

[King, Harold Clyde (Hal)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Warren <davew at hireahit.com>
Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 at 15:47
To: Bind Users <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

>On 2014-01-10 12:36, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
>> From: Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com>
>>> Yes, it seems that they have an A record for that label that
>>> provides the IP address 127.0.0.1.
>>>
>>> You probably want to ask the owner of the zone about this, as I?m
>>> not sure what the community can do about it.
>> They have an MX record, so perhaps the domain is only intended for
>>email.
>>
>> # host p3net.net
>> p3net.net has address 127.0.0.1
>> p3net.net mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
>>
>> Although, they should have more MX records if using google.
>
>And less A records if they don't intend to do anything but email. But
>it's an imperfect world.
>
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>Dave Warren
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Isn¹t there a ³rule² (note lower case) that says ŒZones _should_ have an A
record. CNAMEs _should_not_ point to CNAMES.¹ Things that work, but
shouldn¹t.
 I may be wrong on the rules, I can¹t find my reference.

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