Reverse Lookups

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Thu Jun 7 16:30:56 UTC 2001


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If you want to be able to reverse-lookup it, yes. It's a good idea to
map localhost to 127.0.0.1, and 127.0.0.1 to localhost. BIND doesn't
know that on its own - you have to tell it what to do. (Thankfully.)

Besides, you may want to upgrade to 8.2.4 (or better yet 9.1.2...)


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 7 2001 15:33 +0100, Stuart Errington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running BIND 8.2.3.  Does there have to be a reverse lookup
> for the local host 127.0.0.1 ??
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stuart Errington

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