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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS - no loopback host Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:11:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5c3ieq$mtn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc0772$20cb6cc0$f5010e0a@pc1445.defiance.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34314 "Jamie Townsend" <jamiet@defiance.com.au> wrote: > I am having trouble with DNS & named in that although there is a host setup > as localhost at IP addr 127.0.0.1, it doesn't know that it is its self. Get ``DNS and BIND'' by O'Reilly. Hint: reverse lookup for your own hostname seems broken. Anyway, there's too many things you can get wrong with DNS, and too much harm that can happen if you don't understand all implications. That's why i usually recommend a good book here, even though it sounds harsh to not help you directly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)