From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 11:41:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09164 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09149 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA20009; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: CyberPeasant cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS -- localhost In-Reply-To: <199807081603.MAA00756@lucy.bedford.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > I've noticed that many example named.boot files do not include > forward lookup for localhost, but have only reverse lookup for > 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. localhost is part of your primary domain, i.e. localhost.dpcsys.com It goes in the domain's zone file. If you were in the habit of typing localhost. (note trailing .) then you'd need a localhost zone. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message