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Andre Speelmans andre at as.no-ip.com
Tue Sep 28 18:32:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:51:23AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Carlo Orecchia wrote:
> 
> >  > nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> Why would you EVER have the loopback address as a nameserver.

I am confused.
What if your localhost is the nameserver? What would you put there if not
127.0.01?

> The only way that might work is if the DNS request was coming from the
> local host, and it will ALWAYS cause delays in resolution for other
> hosts that are querying this one, as well as delaying this one in its
> own access to a valid name server..

Even if the localhost runs a nameserver???

-- 
Regards,

Andre




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