[Dnsmasq-discuss] Serving up 127.0.0.1

[Brent Cook]

Funny storing. I was running dnsmasq on a lab network, and was in the process 
of copying a file using scp from a test node to our lab server. So, I did:

scp file server:

and it copied. When I looked at the server, the file wasn't there. It turned 
out dnsmasq was serving up 127.0.0.1 for the server name (of course, that's 
what was in /etc/hosts).

Anyway, I just thought it was odd to have dnsmasq ever serve a 127/8 address 
at all - does it allow serving multicast addresses as well? I haven't tried. 
Should there be some special-case warnings when it starts up when probably 
illegal addresses are published? I would think so, but what do you think?

 - Brent