Loopback address

[Barry Margolin]

In article <4A2567FC.006E5325.00 at iswsn22.isw.eu.mars>,
 <michael.masal at ap.effem.com> wrote:
>I am new to this DNS stuff.  Can somebody please why you require the
>loopback address (127.0.0.1).

That's the standard address for connecting back to the local host.  The
only thing about this that's related to DNS is that it's a common
convention to call this "localhost" in your local domain.

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