A Comparison Of Dynamic and Static Languiges

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Oct 22 04:57:30 EDT 2006


Steve Holden wrote:

> Since network 127 is reserved in its entirety for loopback (local 
> process) use, it would seem that any DNS name that maps to an address in 
> that space with the single exception of "localhost" should be treated as 
> a spammer.

countries.nerd.dk is a DNS blackhole system that can be used to filter 
on originating country.  like most other DNSBL systems, it uses loopback 
addresses to return status codes (in this case, country codes).

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