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Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 8:51 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I hate to douse the party, but all 127.0.0.0/8 addresses are defined to be
loop back. So no network interface card or network stack on top of it
should write anything to the wire or air to that address.

It's just bored system administrators :-)

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

When I figured this out LMFAO :-D

-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
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      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
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