[ On Tue, October 22, 1996 at 15:13:28 (+0100), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: recipient address must contain a domain
>
> In particular, is "localhost" special?
Localhost shouldn't be special from the point of view of the DNS.
Particularly if you configure it "right"! ;-)
I don't think I've ever seen anyone set an MX for their localhost.
>From the various documents included with BIND you'll find that the
following configuration should be complete (of course you should
adjust to suit your primary zone! ;-):
(BTW, don't look at my real zone just now -- it's a bit screwed up.)
------ from named.boot ------
; localhost stuff, almost as per RFC 1537...
;
primary localhost.weird.com p.localhost
primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA p.localhost.rev
------ end ------
------ from p.localhost ------
; from /local/etc/named.boot
;$ORIGIN localhost.weird.com.
@ IN SOA ns.weird.com. postmaster.weird.com. (
1995052501 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh, 8 hours
7200 ; Retry, 2 hours
604800 ; Expire, 1 week
10800 ) ; Minimum TTL, 3 hours
IN NS ns.weird.com.
IN A 127.0.0.1
IN MX 1 localhost.weird.com.
IN HINFO VIRTUAL UNKNOWN
IN UINFO "A weirdo loopback interface"
; some stuff for naming the loopback network....
;
loopback.weird.com. IN A 127.0.0.0
IN HINFO NETWORK UNKNOWN
IN UINFO "It is weirdly fast!"
loopback-net.weird.com. IN CNAME loopback.weird.com.
inverse-loopback.weird.com. IN PTR 0.0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
------ end ------
------ from p.localhost ------
; from /local/etc/named.boot
;$ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
@ IN SOA ns.weird.com. postmaster.weird.com. (
1995052501 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh, 8 hours
7200 ; Retry, 2 hours
604800 ; Expire, 1 week
10800 ) ; Minimum TTL, 3 hours
IN NS ns.weird.com.
IN UINFO "It goes fast in reverse too!"
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.weird.com.
IN UINFO "Me, Myself, and I"
; reverse lookups for the loopback network and its netmask....
;
0.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR loopback.weird.com.
IN A 255.0.0.0
IN UINFO "It's got a weird netmask too!"
------ end ------
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