19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
1:30 p.m.
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