Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost

Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by filleokus on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:43PM (#14950602)

   The domain "localhost.", and any names falling within ".localhost.",
   are known as "localhost names".  Localhost names are special in the
   following ways […]

Is this not implemented on macOS or am I just misunderstanding?

     ~ ping test.localhost
   ping: cannot resolve test.localhost: Unknown host
     ~ ping localhost.test
   ping: cannot resolve localhost.test: Unknown host

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Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by tntniceman on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:50PM (#14950673)

As I understood it, that simply states that if any of those domains were implemented, they should loopback, as opposed to all domains containing "localhost" ARE implemented.

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Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by filleokus on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:02PM (#14950787)

Thank you for the clarification!

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Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by Matheus28 on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:08PM (#14952043)

To clarify a bit further than what the other comments said (abc.localhost. isn't implemented on macOS):

The RFC draft is talking about domains ending in ".localhost.", not any domain containing ".localhost." (so abc.localhost.example.com wouldn't be localhost).

All domains have to end with a period, or they're not fully qualified. "example.com" could mean "example.com.my.domain." if whatever you're using uses "my.domain." as the root. But "example.com." is always "example.com."

Nowadays that feature isn't used very often, as the root of domains not ending in a period is usually assumed to be in the root zone.

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Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by djrogers on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:49PM (#14950661)

It would be rather surprising if a brand new draft RFC from a google employee were already implemented in macOS...

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Re:Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost by filleokus on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:01PM (#14950773)

Yeah of course, sorry, I misread the document. I took that part as to describe the current state.

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