Re: [OT?] rDNS tomfoolery - "localhost"

2008-10-09 Thread Kelson
John Hardin wrote: While shit has happened too many times, I don't see why a browser would do PTR lookup when given an IP. If security settings are defined by the server's hostname or domain name you'd kinda have to, or else say that all numeric-IP URLs are inherently untrustworthy. In that

Re: [OT?] rDNS tomfoolery - "localhost"

2008-10-08 Thread mouss
John Hardin a écrit : > On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, mouss wrote: > >> John Hardin a écrit : >> >>> I've recently come across some anomalous behavior in Vista and Win2k3 >>> when confronted with a host's rDNS returning "localhost". It seems >>> Vista and Win2k3 replace this with the local hostname. To illus

Re: [OT?] rDNS tomfoolery - "localhost"

2008-10-08 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, mouss wrote: John Hardin a écrit : I've recently come across some anomalous behavior in Vista and Win2k3 when confronted with a host's rDNS returning "localhost". It seems Vista and Win2k3 replace this with the local hostname. To illustrate: ping -a 123.30.74.2 AFAIK,

Re: [OT?] rDNS tomfoolery - "localhost"

2008-10-08 Thread mouss
John Hardin a écrit : > All: > > I've recently come across some anomalous behavior in Vista and Win2k3 > when confronted with a host's rDNS returning "localhost". It seems > Vista and Win2k3 replace this with the local hostname. To illustrate: > >ping -a 123.30.74.2 > AFAIK, "-a" doesn't change

[OT?] rDNS tomfoolery - "localhost"

2008-10-08 Thread John Hardin
All: I've recently come across some anomalous behavior in Vista and Win2k3 when confronted with a host's rDNS returning "localhost". It seems Vista and Win2k3 replace this with the local hostname. To illustrate: ping -a 123.30.74.2 (Note: this isn't new, some searching reveals a blog post