Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

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-