nslookup on 127.0.0.1 returns a strange message

Pancho Cole pancho at acadia.net
Mon Oct 25 12:14:15 UTC 1999


I am having a weird problem with the reverse addressing on localhost one 
one of our three machines (p1.acadia.net) we use as names servers, when I 
do a nslookup on localhost it works fine but the reverse of nslookup on 
127.0.0.1 produces some strange results. What have I done wrong here? I am 
using Bind 8.2.2 on this machine. I have included the output from the 
commands, part of my named.conf and the 2 zone files below.
------------------------
  nslookup localhost
Server:  p1.acadia.net
Address:  205.217.211.1

Name:    localhost.acadia.net
Address:  127.0.0.1
---------------------
  nslookup 127.0.0.1
Server:  p1.acadia.net
Address:  205.217.211.1

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
         origin = localhost.1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
         mail addr = hostmaster.localhost
         serial = 10
         refresh = 3600 (1H)
         retry   = 300 (5M)
         expire  = 3600000 (5w6d16h)
         minimum ttl = 3600 (1H)
*** No address (A) records available for 127.0.0.1
----------------------
The relevant section of named.conf:

zone "1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
         type master;
         file "db.127.0.0";
};

zone "localhost" {
         type master;
         file "db.localhost";
};
-------------
db.127.0.0 reads as follows:

$TTL  86400     ; This is the NEW TTL needed for BIND 8.2
;
@       IN      SOA     localhost hostmaster.localhost. (
                                 10      ; Serial
                                 3600    ; Refresh
                                 300     ; Retry
                                 3600000 ; Expire
                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
               IN      NS      localhost
;
1       IN      PTR     localhost
-----------------------
db.localhost reads as follows:

$TTL  86400     ; This is the NEW TTL needed for BIND 8.2
;
@       IN      SOA     localhost hostmaster.localhost. (
                                 10      ; Serial
                                 3600    ; Refresh
                                 300     ; Retry
                                 3600000 ; Expire
                                 3600 )  ; Minimum

               IN      NS      localhost
;
localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1



Pancho Cole

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