Sites that points their A Record to localhost

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2022.1389603219.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:

> >On Jan 11 2014, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> >>(2) There is no requirement that a domain name refer to the Web 
> >>site for that domain.  I personally don't like that (for no special 
> >>reason), and neither apparently does the owner of this domain, who 
> >>forces people to go to the trouble of typing in www.p3net.net to 
> >>get to his or her Web site.
> 
> On 12.01.14 15:04, Chris Thompson wrote:
> >That would be more plausible if www.p3net.net actually resolved to
> >something, rather than giving NXDOMAIN ...
> 
> why? If it's not supposed to work, it should give NXDOMAIN instead of fake
> record (including localhost).

That's his point: they're not "forcing people to go to the trouble of 
typing in www.p3net.net", because there is no such record.

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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA