Sites that points their A Record to localhost

Dave Warren davew at hireahit.com
Fri Jan 10 20:32:37 UTC 2014


On 2014-01-10 12:25, Alan Clegg wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Eduardo Bonsi <beartcom at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> I have an issue happening here. I actually do have a vague idea what it is but I am not real sure how is happening and how to avoid it. I was doing a research the other day and landed on this domain;
>>
>> p3net.net
> 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.

unbound, for example, has an option to discard replies that include 
non-routable IP addresses outside of expected/predictable locations.

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