Sites that points their A Record to localhost

[Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.]

On 01/13/14 03:43, Barry Margolin wrote:
> 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.
> 

OTOH, some of us think the notion that all websites have to begin with
www. is dated.  I want the site to work without the 'www.'  I find it
annoying that keep running into sites where only www.domain.name
works.....worse are the ones where domain name alone doesn't something
else...

Though there used to be an enforced policy here, when you requested a
website name to be added to DNS, you got both with and without www forms
auto-magically.  As well as be in both our domains.

Can cause problems with sites that do SSL....they've always been known
only by one name, but since the other forms exist and somebody out of
the blue tries one ... and they typed https:// first....well, now its
somebody's problem that it resulted in an SSL error.  Including the
person that was just following policy....

Seemed to me that there are mailservers that reject mail from domains
that claim to be localhost, (or perhaps its sites like these that result
in some sites rejecting such domains?)

What's p3net.net?

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