Why is my system talking to itself?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38988B1D.33331F27 at corecomm.net>,
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. <clifto at corecomm.net> wrote:
>First setup for me (besides a cache); not sure whether this is normal.
>Examples:

It's normal if you have your own address in your /etc/resolv.conf file.
These are just applications performing DNS lookups.

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