localhost in a domain zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a399ge$44a at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Sergey Nikolaev <SNikolae at siac.com> wrote:
>Is there any sense in having the A record for localhost.mydomain.com pointing to
>127.0.0.1 in the mydomain.com zone?

If your users want to be able to use the name "localhost" to refer to their
own machine, it's a useful thing to have.

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