Whence loopback A-RR's in zonefiles?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a6g7ak$1vt at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>If someone put localhost in the root server, then localhost. would
>work everywhere.  Or someone could register localhost.com and put
>it in there, for all to use.

If a name has no domain suffix, most resolvers will try appending all the
domains in the search list before treating it as a fully-qualified name in
the root domain.  So you'll get an answer more quickly if you put it in the
local domain.

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