Need some clarification....

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Nov 9 18:00:45 UTC 1999


In article <809ivs$4bg$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <brady_swen at my-deja.com> wrote:
>would this be correct for db.i-nova?:
>
>@ IN SOA i-nova.com hostmaster.i-nova.com (
>        1
>        10800
>        3600
>        604800
>        86400 )
>
>;
>; Name servers (The name @ is implied)
>;
>        IN NS  ns1.i-nova.com
>        IN NS  ns1.networksplus.net
>;
>;
>;
>localhost  IN  A        127.0.0.1
>www        IN  A        127.0.0.1
>ns1        IN  A        127.0.0.1

It seens unlikely that this would be right.  127.0.0.1 is the loopback IP
address, so if anyone tried to connect to www.i-nova.com they would connect
to their own machine, not your server.  And if they tried to use the
nameserver ns1.i-nova.com, they would again try to use themselves.

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