"Empty zones" and BIND 9.4

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Jun 23 00:24:58 UTC 2007


Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <f5c7k9$2icm$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Clenna Lumina" <savagebeaste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, wouldn't be better to have the '* IN PTR localhost' and just have 
>> 'localhost IN A 127.0.0.1', that way localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 
>> like expected and 127.0.0.1 (any anything else 127.*) comes back as 
>> localhost, as all 127/8 addresses are technically "localhost" addresses?
> 
> If you're using other 127.x.x.x addresses, they're probably intended for 
> specific purposes, not the generic loopback.  So you should probably 
> create application-specific forward and reverse records for them, rather 
> than mapping them all to "localhost".
> 

NTP uses 127.127.x.x for refclock references.

Danny



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