localhost in a domain zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a39h07$5h0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Sergey Nikolaev <SNikolae at siac.com> wrote:
>"localhost" is already in /etc/hosts. What DNS would reply to is
>"localhost.mydomain.com". But is it realy necessary?

What about clients that don't have /etc/hosts files?

You asked a general question, so I gave a general answer.  If your
environment provides another way to translate localhost->127.0.0.1, then
you obviously don't need it.

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