loopback address

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ruga4$2t3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
sally wong  <sywong10 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>In setting up the DNS server, I am wondering in our
>loopback db.ADDR file, is it recommended to add all
>name servers (primary and secondary) to the NS
>records?  or does it not matter because it simply is a
>127.0.0.1 address?

The NS records in this zone are irrelevant.  NS records are used to
tell other servers what servers they should query for the zone.  But since
no other servers are querying your server for the loopback reverse domain,
they don't care what you list.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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