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Years back I ran into a issue at work because somebody named their computer "localhost" on a network with automatic DNS registration. Because of DNS search path configuration it would resolve. So, "localhost" ended up resolving to something other than an address on 127.0.0.0/8! It was a fun discovery and fixed soon after I reported it.


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