localhost in a domain zone

[Kevin Darcy]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:07:12PM -0500, Sergey Nikolaev 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?
> ...
>
> Yes, this is standard.  And a lot of things work better.

That's not up to your usual standard of rigor, Joe.

I vote for eliminating extraneous junk. If something *depends* on localhost.dom.ain
being defined, it's broken and should be fixed.


- Kevin