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Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

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Jonathan Dowland wrote: 
> 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.

It was also fashionable for a while to set up names like ftp.warez.org 
and point them to 127.0.0.1. 

"They look OK, but they only have stuff I already have."

-dsr-

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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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