Re: 'Empty zones' and BIND 9.4

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'Empty zones' and BIND 9.4
\ Adam Tkac (18 Jun 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (18 Jun 2007)
. . \ Chris Buxton (18 Jun 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (18 Jun 2007)
. . \ Adam Tkac (19 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Peter Dambier (19 Jun 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (20 Jun 2007)
. . \ Peter Dambier (20 Jun 2007)
. \ Clenna Lumina (20 Jun 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (20 Jun 2007)
. \ Clenna Lumina (20 Jun 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (20 Jun 2007)
. \ Barry Margolin (21 Jun 2007)
. . \ Danny Mayer (23 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: 'Empty zones' and BIND 9.4
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Danny Mayer
Date:	23 Jun 2007

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <f5c7k9$2icm$1>,
> "Clenna Lumina" <savagebeaste> 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