localhost name lookup

[Lee]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM Greg Choules wrote:
>
>
> > On 24 Jan 2025, at 19:07, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM Petr Špaček wrote:
> >>
> >> On 15. 01. 25 19:55, Lee wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM Ondřej Surý wrote:
> >>>> On 14. 1. 2025, at 16:56, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> In other words, should I submit a bug report to the Debian bind
> >>>> maintainers or ISC?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> With both my ISC and Debian hats on, I am going to be very frank
> >>>> and say this has a very low priority, so unless you actually want to
> >>>> work on this and submit a solid correct patch with a good reasoning,
> >>>> there's probably nobody that is going to work on this.
> >>>
> >>> I appreciate the honesty, but I think I'm missing something?
> >>>
> >>> The good reasoning part would be quoting the RFC and the solid correct
> >>> patch would be stripping out everything except the two line change I
> >>> made to my db.local in the original post.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately not quite, BIND does not ship with any zone files.
> >
> > Really?!  I installed BIND on windows however long ago when it was
> > supported on Windows and it came with a db.local that looked identical
> > to the one that came with Debian.
>
> Certainly for the last quite a lot of years there hasn't been a hint zone file - whatever it might be called - shipped with BIND, if ever: there are too many releases to search through.
> The current (at the time of release) set of root servers are contained in the file rootns.c, but this is definitely not a zone file, just the place BIND gets its built-in hints from.
> I would think that, if a file called db.local, db.hint, db.root or whatever does exist, it is someone else who created it.

I don't know who created or included db.local in the distribution of
bind.  What I do know is that my installation of bind on windows and
my installation of bind on debian came with a db.local -- here's the
one that came with my installation of bind on Windows:

C:\MyProgs\BIND\etc>more db.local
;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface
;
$TTL    604800
@       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost. (
                              2         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@       IN      NS      localhost.
@       IN      A       127.0.0.1
@       IN      AAAA    ::1

C:\MyProgs\BIND\etc>

and here's my modified copy of db.local on my Debian machine (I added
the two wildcard lines for .localhost.)

lee at spot /etc/bind
$ cat db.local
;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface
;
$TTL    604800
@       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost. (
                              3         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@       IN      NS      localhost.
@       IN      A       127.0.0.1
@       IN      AAAA    ::1

*       IN      A       127.0.0.1
        IN      AAAA    ::1


lee at spot /etc/bind
$ dig +short foo.bar.localhost aaaa
::1

lee at spot /etc/bind
$ grep db.local *
named.conf.default-zones:       file "/etc/bind/db.local";

lee at spot /etc/bind
$


Regards,
Lee