[GTALUG] server question

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 22 16:55:23 EST 2020


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:56:07PM -0500, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> Except if you follow the RFC, for .localhost
> "Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize localhost names
> as special and SHOULD always return the IP loopback address for
> address queries and negative responses for all other query types. Name
> resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for localhost names to their
> configured caching DNS server(s).
> 
> And for .invalid
> "Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize "invalid" names
> as special and SHOULD always return immediate negative responses.
> 
> So that leaves only .test

Oh yeah, I missed that detail.

I think I will stick with .lan for now.

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Len Sorensen


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