Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that the resolver will treat lookups of "localhost." and "localhost" > differently if you have a domain or search > directive specified in /etc/resolv.conf. You could and perhaps should ensure > that the one ending in a period exists in > a zone file on the nameserver, and maps via an A record to 127.0.0.1:
Apparently so. I've sorta followed your suggestions and used the following rather verbose master/localhost with good results (except Mozilla). You needn't read further; I've just added some observations. $TTL 604800 localhost. IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( 20050816 ; Serial 604800 ; Refresh 86400 ; Retry 2419200 ; Expire 604800 ) ; Minimum ;Name Server: localhost. IN NS localhost. ;Host Address: localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1 ;Host Alias: localhost.localhost. IN CNAME localhost. ; The End. Now "host", "dig", and "nslookup" work OK, even without an /etc/resolv.conf file. But sendmail seems to need the later. (It just has "nameserver 127.0.0.1".) I tried to make "localhost.localhost" the canonical domain and "localhost." the alias (so it would better correspond to the reverse mapping which has 127.0.0.1 > localhost.localhost.), but it then wouldn't resolve "localhost" OR "localhost.localhost". My DNS book implies taht any domain name can be assigned to a host, as it can with the CNAME above, but it seems that important software either insists that a host has a two-part domain name or chokes on a FQDN like "localhost.", which ends with a dot. So be it. Mozilla apparently doesn't even use my local DNS as it still hangs. (I must admit that I've never checked my caching DNS's cache.) I know little about proxies, but I tried configuring Mozilla to use a "localhost" proxyand it then resolved "localhost" OK, but my funky python-only web server couldn't find the index.html it found with 127.0.0.1. Oh well, I don't much care about Mozilla problems as long as I can work around it, which I can. Thanks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"