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Comment by xrisk

5 days ago

Your DNS server not resolving to localhost may also serve as an additional line of defense.

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h43z  5 days ago

What does this have to do with the issue here? A website can just connect to 127.0.0.1 , no DNS needed.

I think what you are thinking of are dns rebinding attacks.

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