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Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

From Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1
Date 2022-01-19 15:20 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:36:30PM +0000, Richmond wrote:
>It doesn't seem like an appropriate use of the address to me, and I
>stared in disbelief when I saw it, thinking something had gone wrong.

This is unlikely to be an explanation for cooperative.co.uk, but it used
to be fashionable to register a vanity domain, set an A record to
127.0.0.1, set the AAAA record to a valid IPv6 address from which you
connect to an IRC network, set the AAAA rdns record to match, and then
you appear on IRC as your chosen vanity host. If you get into an
argument with someone on IRC (perhaps more common for the types of
people who go about setting this up) and the other end decides to packet
flood you, if they aren't careful they'll direct their packet cannons at
127.0.0.1.


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cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-01-18 14:50 +0100
  Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-18 15:00 +0100
    Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-18 15:50 +0100
    Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-18 15:50 +0100
    Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-01-19 15:10 +0100
      Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-01-19 15:20 +0100
        Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-19 16:00 +0100
          Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-01-20 02:00 +0100
            Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-01-20 11:00 +0100
              Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-20 17:40 +0100
  Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-18 16:00 +0100
    Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-18 16:10 +0100
      Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-01-19 20:50 +0100
        Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2022-01-20 02:40 +0100
  Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2022-01-18 21:30 +0100

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