From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 14:12:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C62F815183 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:12:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 44747 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Nov 1999 22:12:28 +0000 (GMT) To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:42:19 -0800 (PST)" References: <199911182042.MAA25511@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:12:28 +0100 Message-ID: <44745.942963148@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Another best practive often not done correctly is the reverse zome for > 127.in-addr.arpa. Yes, thats right, I said 127.in-addr.arpa, not > 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. And that is where the error is made, even in the > bind documentation and in what FreeBSD distributes. Here is a proper > zone file: I see no reason why this is any more correct than the "traditional" $origin 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 1 PTR localhost. Maybe you'd like to convince us? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message