>> Don't know about HP_UX but it's generally recommeded to have this in so you
>> don't get surpises, after all, it's your loopback (local) host and you are
>> authorative for it, none else, including root servers. You'll also need a:
>>
>> IN PTR localhost.
>>
>> in there as well.
>
>NO.
>First, this PTR record belongs into the zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
>(or 127.in-addr.arpa, whichever you prefer) for the address 127.0.0.1 .
>Second, it is strongly recommended (see BIND operations guide) not to
>let it point to the fake top level domain 'localhost.' but to some
>localhost.<my>.<dom>.<ain> . For the latter there should be an A-RR for
>the IP-address 127.0.0.1 .
Peter,
Ok, ok - start again else confusion reigns, mabye I was not explicit and
I also forgot the 1 above - the joys of cut and paste.
One should run primary for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, thus in the named.boot file :
primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa named.local
Also a good idea is to stick this in:
; The following are to prevent really stupid queries from going past this server.
; The zero and broadcast stuff
primary 0.IN-ADDR.ARPA null
primary 255.IN-ADDR.ARPA broadcast
and then in named.local file an SOA and an NS record - in my case same as the
origin thus the @:
@ IN SOA ecrc.de. hostmaster.ecrc.de. (
1.3 ;Serial
28800 ;Refresh
7200 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
86400 ) ;Minimum
IN NS ecrc.de.
1 IN PTR localhost.
Alternatively stick in instead of the @ line:
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa IN SOA whatever.tld - etc....
The null and broadcast files are essentially the same - only an SOA and
an NS record are needed.
>To answer the original question: Yes, you should have an entry
>localhost A 127.0.0.1
>in your (forward) zone files. Note that the current origin will be appended
>to 'localhost' in the example, so you really will produce an entry like
>localhost.ucd.ie (if ucd.ie were this current origin) with this.
>
>Regards,
> Peter
Ok - all true, and perhaps stick in these as well.......
localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
loghost IN CNAME localhost.
Well - it seems to work for me ?
Dave
