On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:46:52 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's always a good idea to put localhost into dns too. > > Yeah, but "localhost" *is* resolving as something on Kiyoshi's > machine, else a different error message would have appeared. > > I'm wondering just what it resolved to though --- maybe we should > have made the error messages more verbose, or added a debug-level > message to show what addresses are being tried. > I tried nslookup on Kiyoshi's machine. -------------------------------- $ nslookup localhost Server: name.server.mydomain Address: xxx.xx.xx.xxx : : : (failed test) ^C $ nslookup 127.0.0.1 Server: mail.nagoya2.jrc.or.jp Address: 172.20.12.11 Name: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 (succesful test) $ -------------------------------- /etc/resolv.conf domin mydomain nameserver xxx.xx.xx.xxx /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns ipnodes: files dns -------------------------------- Is it necessary to start a DNS server to bind 'localhost' in Kiyoshi's machine? Reference URL http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsunone/3877 -- Kiyoshi Sawada ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
