Sites that points their A Record to localhost

[Eduardo Bonsi]

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

I found a little strange when I logged into this domain because rather than seeing their website, I am seeing our main website page. Then, I performed a dig on their domain and got this output:

; <<>> DiG 0.0.0 <<>> p3net.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;p3net.net.            IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
p3net.net.        7075    IN    A    127.0.0.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
p3net.net.        172672    IN    NS    dns1.namesecure.com.
p3net.net.        172672    IN    NS    dns2.namesecure.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.namesecure.com.    172    IN    A    205.178.190.56
dns2.namesecure.com.    174    IN    A    206.188.198.56

It seems like they have their domain configuration A Record pointed to the localhost. We all know that the localhost is not routable outside of the internet. Therefore I am sure their website cannot resolve out of the 127.0.0.1.  
In addition to that, it is possible that this is happening only here because of the way our Server configuration is setup in the OS X to bring the resolver to the localhost first before it can go out to the distributed domains/websites through the Apache conf.
In my name configuration I have everything going to their respective internal non-routable separated ip addresses and localhost resolve to localhost only. I do not have any domain or website pointing to the localhost directly on my name conf.
Every website point to their respective internal ip addresses only. Ps: (If the information I am giving appears to be too vague and you need any specific information, please, ask!)

 
Thanks!

Eduardo

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Eduardo Bonsi
System Admin
beartcom at pacbell.net
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