I am sooo confused...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ab7mco$6ngg$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, James Lee <csejl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> > Hopefully, this will be my last question.  When I type nslookup on my
>> > server, it says:
>> >
>> > Default Server: localhost
>> > Address: 127.0.0.1
>> >
>> > instead of my domainname and ip address.  Why is it doing this?
>> 
>> Because whoever configured the reverse DNS for 127.0.0.1 pointed that
>record at the name
>> "localhost" instead of your domainname and IP address. Feel free to
>reconfigure it.
>
>Are you referring to the file db.127.0.0?  I tried changing this to my
>ip address and domainname but it failed.  Can you be a little bit more
>specific?  Thanks.

The address 127.0.0.1 should almost always resolve to "localhost", so I
don't understand why you're trying to change it.

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