localhoast A record?

[Mitchell Kuch]

The only remotely valid use case that I have found was the default DNS
monitoring rule for OpenNMS and other monitoring applications. Such a
shame.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Marco Davids (SIDN)
<marco.davids at sidn.nl> wrote:
> To me, an NXDOMAIN-reply seems better

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Mitchell Kuch <mitch at basejp.com> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I've adopted a number of zones and most of them contain "localhost in
> a 127.0.0.1" records. I'm curious what current RFC standards state and
> what the community considers best practice. RFC1537 states that zones
> should contain a localhost record, but it seems that practice was
> obsoleted by RFC1912. Is anyone aware of negative consequences with
> leaving such records in place, perhaps a XSS vulnerability?
>
> I'm itching to remove the records but thought I'd check to see if
> there was a legacy use case.
>
> Regards,
> Mitchell