peertech.org -> localhost ?

[Travis Roy]

> On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:49 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
>>   http://www.peertech.org/
>>
>>...I was presented with the default page from the WWW
>>server on my own machine.  WTF?  But then I notice that
>>the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0.0.1
>>which, at least in my experience, seems weird.
>>
>>Is this in fact some sort of normal situation, like maybe
>>that's the standard way a dormant domain gets "parked" ?

I've seen this a lot more then I would have thought. Mostly people do it 
for like localhost.domain.com, not for www :)

We have quite a few customers that have at least one item pointed to 
127.0.0.1.


> 
> 
> Well, it's odd, but the manager of that domain can set whatever IPs he wants 
> to do for these things.  It's definitely not parked.  Here's the output of a 
> zone transfer below which shows that the owner set peertech.org and 
> www.peertech.org to resolve to localhost, while he setup MX records, and 
> domains for vpn and home.  
> 
> Perhaps he has just a sense of humor?
> -N
> 
> nschelly at nschelly:~$ dig @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      SOA     ns8.zoneedit.com. 
> soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      NS      ns8.zoneedit.com.
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      NS      ns17.zoneedit.com.
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      A       127.0.0.1
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      MX      0 mail5.zoneedit.com.
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      MX      0 mail4.zoneedit.com.
> vpn.peertech.org.       7200    IN      A       207.162.210.21
> www.peertech.org.       7200    IN      A       127.0.0.1
> home.peertech.org.      7200    IN      A       71.111.75.192
> peertech.org.           7200    IN      SOA     ns8.zoneedit.com. 
> soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200
> ;; Query time: 179 msec
> ;; SERVER: 206.55.124.4#53(ns8.zoneedit.com.)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Mar  3 07:38:07 2006
> ;; XFR size: 10 records
> 
> 
> That certainly 
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