localhoast A record?

[SM]

Hi Chris,
At 11:18 21-03-2014, Chris Thompson wrote:
>We used to create lots of localhost.[subdomain].cam.ac.uk records, even
>to the extent of adding an AAAA record just for those institutions that
>had IPv6 enabled on their networks. But we have pretty much given up doing
>that for new subdomains. It still seems to me potentially useful to keep
>localhost.cam.ac.uk itself, to terminate the probable iteration described
>above before it goes any further.

It can be used to exploit web application vulnerabilities.

Regards,
-sm