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[Philipp Schafft <lion AT lion.leolix.org>]

reflum,

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:33 -0500, Larry Brower wrote:
> On 04/26/2011 04:07 PM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I consider it to be kind and handy to have them reserved.
> > What do you think?
> > 
> 
> example.TLD is often used for documentation purposes and as such I think
> should be reserved.
> 
> 
> > 
> > So I recommend to add the localhost entry.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> 
> I have to disagree here. Systems which misbehave in the manner you
> describe are broken and should be fixed. We should not have to add
> unneeded records to account for broken architecture.

Yes. I'm with you about this. But I simply gave up. Stuff like that
happens to me on systems you beleave to do this right: netcat on Debian
was one of those cases I had. It is just more easy for me to add the
localhost entry than debugging users' systems.

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)

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