DNS server cannot poll its own BIND service

[Barry Margolin]

In article <30604.950703267 at nfsd.linpro.no>,  <janl at linpro.no> wrote:
>This is a interesting passage, and I don't understand what it is trying
>to say.  I've always "known" that you need a /etc/resolv.conf to get
>DNS resolving to work.

Then you've "known" wrong.  If there's no resolv.conf, it's equivalent to
one that contains:

domain <suffix of hostname>
nameserver 0.0.0.0

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