Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:36:30PM +0000, Richmond wrote: > > It doesn't seem like an appropriate use of the address to me, and I > > stared in disbelief when I saw it, thinking something had gone wrong. > > This is unlikely to be an explanation for cooperative.co.uk, but it used > to be fashionable to register a vanity domain, set an A record to > 127.0.0.1, set the AAAA record to a valid IPv6 address from which you > connect to an IRC network, set the AAAA rdns record to match, and then > you appear on IRC as your chosen vanity host. If you get into an > argument with someone on IRC (perhaps more common for the types of > people who go about setting this up) and the other end decides to packet > flood you, if they aren't careful they'll direct their packet cannons at > 127.0.0.1.
It was also fashionable for a while to set up names like ftp.warez.org and point them to 127.0.0.1. "They look OK, but they only have stuff I already have." -dsr-
