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