PTR files

[Charles Swiger]

On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Norman Fournier <norman at normanfournier.com> wrote:
> I am working on bringing a virtual webserver behind a router online and am encountering problems.

OK.  The odds are very good that you should ask about this on an Apache/nginx/etc forum, as it's unlikely to be related to DNS or BIND.

> In my named.conf, this is my in-addr.arpa entry:
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.local";
> 	allow-update { none; };
> };
> 
> Should I explicitly define the reverse lookup for my ip or does this entry accomplish the same thing, as it seem to have done so in the past.

It provides a PTR record for 127.0.0.1; equivalent to the standard /etc/hosts entry of:

127.0.0.1	localhost

There's nothing you should change here.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck