Routing 127.0.0.0 network

All Solaris hosts seem to be set up by default to route only 127.0.0.1 and not the rest of the 127.0.0.0/8 address space to loopback.

RFC-1700 clearly states that all of 127 is to kept inside the host.

It's easy to work around, "add route 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1"

or similar.

My router administrators are whining because packets destined for

127.0.0.2 are showing up on the wire. When ordb.org shut down, they set

their NS records to point to 127.0.0.2, so lots of DNS servers are

trying to find that IP address. There's really nothing except good manners keeping anyone from setting their NS records to 127.0.0-anything when they shut a domain down.

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Any comments?

[727 byte] By [wsandersa] at [2007-11-26 20:09:37]