At 01:16 AM 11/14/99 +0100, Denis Havlik wrote:
>:>Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check
>:>and it is not owned by RedHat at all.
>:>Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and
>:>wanted to play a joke on everyone else.
>
>This is the best practical joke I have seen in the long time...
>
>I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS.
>Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS
>at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought
>all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses.
That's at the routing level, yes. As far as I am aware, no-one does any
real sanity checking on the content of "A" records returned by a forward
lookup.
