Re: Windows 2003 dns can't resolve locahost

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.LSAOL.COM)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:56:59 -0600

In news:%23X18R7%23FEHA.3996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Charles Elliott <elliott.ct@verizon.net> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> On my system, in the Administrative Tools/DNS applet, I have the
> following tree:
>
> Reverse Lookup Zones
> -- Other Stuff
> -- 127.in-addr.arpa
> -- 0
> -- 0 (Entry: 1) Pointer (PTR) localhost
>
> This entry was put there when I used Add/Remove Programs to install
> DNS, but it is trivial to add entries yourself using the DNS
> Administrative Tool.
>

localhost the name is in the host file pointing to 127.0.0.1 this is just
for reverse lookups all MS DNS servers have a PTR pointing
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa to localhost. 

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