RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
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. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sevatio Octavio > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost? > > > Why does http://www.redhat.org resolve to 127.0.0.1? I'm using > Windurs 98 with IE. > > Seve
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
:>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. Denis
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
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.
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
> Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. Oops, I wasn't thinking before when I said someone submitted it to Internic with that address. They just configured their bind server that way. I guess it's time for a cup of coffee... --Derek
RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
> 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. You're not sending any routed packets to 127.0.0.1. All you're doing is sending a request to a DNS server that says, "Hey, what IP address does the name www.redhat.org resolve to?" Since the owner of "redhat.org" configured "www.redhat.org" to resolve to the loopback address, you get a response to your DNS question that says "www.redhat.org resolves to the following IP address: 127.0.0.1". Then, your web browser tries to connect to that IP. If you're running a web server, you see the output. No packets are ever "routed" to that IP address. I own a domain... I might have one of the hostnames resolve to 192.168.0.1. That would have some very interesting results on certain networks. --Derek
Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way to make some bot traps. -chris
Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?
Chris Roupp wrote: > > Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way > to make some bot traps. > > -chris If you don't run an HTTP server on the webbot machine, it will do nothing. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
