VS: DNS Misconfiguration on- http://cyberia.net.sa/

[Tony Finch]

Jukka Pakkanen <jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi> wrote:

> Thx for the info, had missed this one and actually we have that minor
> misconfiguration too. Have had since 1995 when started our nameservers
> and never noticed...

Yes, it used to be recommended -
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1537#section-10

But not any more, because -
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Jan/270

I also only found out about this recently(ish) -
https://www.dns.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-09-01-localhost.html

Tony.
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