"Empty zones" and BIND 9.4
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Sat Jun 23 00:24:58 UTC 2007
Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <f5c7k9$2icm$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> "Clenna Lumina" <savagebeaste at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, wouldn't be better to have the '* IN PTR localhost' and just have
>> 'localhost IN A 127.0.0.1', that way localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1
>> like expected and 127.0.0.1 (any anything else 127.*) comes back as
>> localhost, as all 127/8 addresses are technically "localhost" addresses?
>
> If you're using other 127.x.x.x addresses, they're probably intended for
> specific purposes, not the generic loopback. So you should probably
> create application-specific forward and reverse records for them, rather
> than mapping them all to "localhost".
>
NTP uses 127.127.x.x for refclock references.
Danny
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