[afnog] DNS Problem (PTR Records on different subnets fails)

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Mar 31 09:17:54 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:22:27AM -0700,
 SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> If the nameserver is running on the computer where you are doing the
> query, you should only have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in your
> /etc/resolv.conf file.

Bad advice. There is no reason to have only one nameserver in
resolv.conf and it is not mandatory, far from it, that the local (same
machine) nameserver is listed in resolv.conf.






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