localhost is a "me" pointer, and should not be in DNS.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Burke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Samba weirdness
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:03 AM
> > To: 'John Burke'
> > Subject: RE: Samba weirdness
> >
> >
> > John,
> > I got that message from Samba when I first set up the
> > RESLVCNF.NET file,
> > thus enabling DNS name resolution.  The problem, it turned
> > out, was that the
> > HOSTS file is no longer used, and our DNS server did not have
> > a LOCALHOST
> > entry.  Make sure you have a LOCALHOST entry with address 127.0.0.1.
> >
>
> Ah, he says, "they" were fiddling around with DNS last night
> and deleted the
> localhost entry ("they" are M$ bigots and having localhost in
> DNS is not
> necessary in a M$ network). Thanks, John, for pointing me in the right
> direction.
>
> Now, if you read my initial post, you are asking yourself why
> did Samba/iX
> work on the other two systems? The answer is that one uses a
> HOSTS file and
> not DNS and the other has the NSSWITCH beta patch installed
> and was able to
> transparently use the HOSTS file when DNS failed on
> localhost. I knew it had
> to be related to what "they" did since I am not a big believer in
> coincidence but since I've been using Samba for over four years I'd
> forgotten about the localhost issue.
>
> John
>
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