Whence loopback A-RR's in zonefiles?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Mar 11 15:53:11 UTC 2002


In article <a6bktr$epv at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Rick Crelia  <rcrelia at cobaltgroup.com> wrote:
>If I were king, I'd make you put it in your local network config files
>before requiring it to be in DNS. Just seems odd that a loopback requires
>publication...kinda' contradictory there.

It's not *required*, just a good idea.  Not all machines have a local hosts
file, some search it *after* trying DNS, etc.

And if you have split DNS, you only need it in the internal DNS, not the
published DNS.

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