[267] in testers
RT 6.3B packs: new named
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 26 13:48:49 1989
From: mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 11:08:53 -0400
To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, netreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ilhamuddin Ahmed's message of Thu, 26 Oct 89 01:01:18 -0400 <8910260501.AA24094@VALHALLA.MIT.EDU>
The problem is that, why is there LOCALHOST.UMD.EDU and not
LOCALHOST.MIT.EDU???
That name is the result of doing a reverse resolve on the address
127.0.0.1 (the loopback address). If you ask TERP.UMD.EDU (the
nearest root nameserver) it will say that address 127.0.0.1 belongs to
LOCALHOST.UMD.EDU. This is not easy to change because we don't have
authority over net 127 to change it right. We could kludge it into
/etc/named.mit on the workstation the same way we have kludged other
parts of the configuration, but I don't like perpetrating any more of
that than necessary to make the system work. I'd also rather not put
that name in unless Telecom is also willing to register
LOCALHOST.MIT.EDU as 127.0.0.1.
-Mark
