listen-on ignored?

[Mark Andrews]

> /dev/rob0 wrote:
> > On Tuesday 2005-August-09 13:24, Jason Morehouse wrote:
> > 
> >>listen-on {69.41.244.102; localhost;};
> > 
> > 
> > Read the _BIND_9_ARM_ (included with the source). "localhost" is a 
> > built-in ACL which encompasses all IP addresses on the machine. Perhaps 
> > unfortunate that the same word means 127.0.0.1 in other contexts, but 
> > also consider that you cannot use hostnames in your configuration. You 
> > can only use IP addresses and defined ACL's.
> 
> No it doesn't. localhost is either 127.0.0.1 or ::1, nothing more and 
> nothing less.
> 
> Danny

	The acl localhost has all the machine's addresses in it.
	The hostname localhost is 127.0.0.1 and (with IPv6) ::1.

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