Jeff Chan wrote:
Thanks for the feedback Matthew. Mouss would you care to report the bug to Fedora, if you haven't already? (It sounds like it was somewhat known already?)
I don't know much about it except, that the "old" bind docs say so.
See section 6.2 of the "BOG" (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/systems/proj/DNS/bog.html for instance).
<excerpt BOG-sect-6.2>
Note that if you wish to list the local host in your resolver configuration file, you should probably use its primary Internet address rather than a localhost alias such as 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0. This is due to a bug in the handling of connected SOCK_DGRAM sockets in some versions of the BSD networking code. If you must use an address-alias, you should prefer 0.0.0.0 (or simply ``0'') over 127.0.0.1, though be warned that depending on the vintage of your BSD-derived networking code, both of them are capable of failing in their own ways.
</excerpt>
(Of course, "BSD" doesn't mean just the open-src *bsd here, as it applies to all OSes that used the BSD sockets code, and this includes a lot of systems)
regards, mouss
