Re: RFC compliance: MUST v SHOULD or MAY

2025-01-12 Thread Nick Tait via bind-users
On 13/01/2025 12:44, Lee wrote: As long as I'm asking ignorant questions.. is there some reason why bind (at least as it came configured on my Debian machine) looks up .local names? I added this bit to named.conf to do what seemed reasonable. But again - it seems reasonable _to me_ I dunno if a

Re: localhost name lookup

2025-01-12 Thread Eric
I did, but my thought would be it's up to the dns admin to define those zone configurations as you have done. I may be wrong though. Jan 12, 2025 6:36:03 PM Lee : > On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM Eric wrote: >> >> That is means that the 'domain' is reserved and can be used locally. It >> do

RFC compliance: MUST v SHOULD or MAY

2025-01-12 Thread Lee
As long as I'm asking ignorant questions.. is there some reason why bind (at least as it came configured on my Debian machine) looks up .local names? I added this bit to named.conf to do what seemed reasonable. But again - it seems reasonable _to me_ I dunno if anyone else agrees & it seems like

Re: localhost name lookup

2025-01-12 Thread Lee
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM Eric wrote: > > That is means that the 'domain' is reserved and can be used locally. It > doesn't specify all records in that namespace / domain will resolve to > 127.0.01. > > Think of it like .com > > If you want every A record in *.localhost to resolve to 127.0.

Re: localhost name lookup

2025-01-12 Thread Eric
That is means that the 'domain' is reserved and can be used locally. It doesn't specify all records in that namespace / domain will resolve to 127.0.01. Think of it like .com If you want every A record in *.localhost to resolve to 127.0.0.1 what you did will do that. Jan 12, 2025 4:38:09 PM Le

localhost name lookup

2025-01-12 Thread Lee
Excuse my ignorance, but https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.3 The domain "localhost." and any names falling within ".localhost." are special in the following ways: sure seems to mean that if I lookup curlmachine.localhost I should get a 127.0.0.1 or ::1 address returne