localhost in a domain zone

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Jan 30 18:17:58 UTC 2002


Sergey Nikolaev wrote:
> 
> Is there any sense in having the A record for localhost.mydomain.com pointing to
> 127.0.0.1 in the mydomain.com zone?

See rfc1537 for advice on localhost.

This is a "should", but rfc1537 doesn't define a standard.

I guess if none of your clients ever ask for localhost, or it is
a domain that no computers belong to it isn't needed.

I have it in the default template I use, that way I don't have
to worry about whether it'll be used or not, it is there anyway.


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