localhost zone

[Mark Watts]

> Hello to all ,
>
> I have that some dns servers had, in addition to the "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"
> zone, a zone "localhost" in their configuration.
>
> Is there an interest to have this zone configured ?
>
> I am asking you this, because i've seen some of my mail servers asking for
> "localhost/MX/IN", and i was surprised by such request.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Mis-configured clients can often be seen trying to resolve "localhost" from 
the DNS server they are configured to use.

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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Trusted Information Management
Trusted Solutions and Services Group
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