Managing localhost

[Tony Finch]

techlists at phpcoderusa.com <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
> This book  :
> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/dns-and-bind/0596100574/ch04.html  says I
> should manage the localhost within my zone (SOA) and reverse lookup / PTR.

That advice is out of date: nowadays you should not put any localhost
entries in the DNS, because it can cause problems for web browser
security. Modern software should suppress queries for localhost so they
never reach the DNS.

https://www.dns.cam.ac.uk/news/2017-09-01-localhost.html

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.3

Tony.
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