Error in localhost config?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Jan 19 18:53:56 UTC 2000
In article <20000119171231.CYEA26071.mail.rdc1.il.home.com at mercury.snydernet.lan>,
Steve Snyder <swsnyder at home.com> wrote:
>When running a DNS analysis tool ("DNS Expert", by Mice&Men) against
>my nameserver (BIND v8.2.2P5 on a Linux box) I received a warning
>about my localhost config.
>
>This was the warning:
>
> "The Reverse record "1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" does not refer to
> the host "localhost.snydernet.lan"
>
>Sure enough, the references *are* different.
>
>In file "db.snydernet" I have this record:
>
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
>
>And in file "db.127.0.0" I have:
>
> 1.0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA. IN PTR localhost.snydernet.lan.
>
>So here, finally, is my question: should both references be set to
>localhost.snydernet.lan or should they both be set to just localhost?
A name without a suffix gets the origin appended to it. Assuming the
origin in db.snydernet is snydernet.lan, the above A record *is* for
localhost.snydernet.lan.
>Or is this config really ok, and the analysis tool is just complaining
>about a non-issue?
Sounds like a problem with the tool.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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