"Empty zones" and BIND 9.4

[Barry Margolin]

In article <f5c7k9$2icm$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Clenna Lumina" <savagebeaste at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, wouldn't be better to have the '* IN PTR localhost' and just have 
> 'localhost IN A 127.0.0.1', that way localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 
> like expected and 127.0.0.1 (any anything else 127.*) comes back as 
> localhost, as all 127/8 addresses are technically "localhost" addresses?

If you're using other 127.x.x.x addresses, they're probably intended for 
specific purposes, not the generic loopback.  So you should probably 
create application-specific forward and reverse records for them, rather 
than mapping them all to "localhost".

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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