Bind and getting named.root

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Shawn Tayler wrote:

> 
> Also, while I have you Doug, what is this /var/named/pz/127.0.0 file?  I typed it all in as illustrated but its not making 
> any sense to me.  Could someone clarify this for me?  (Dumb question of the day I am sure)


Generally speaking, the 127.0.0 zone file is in reference to the systems 
loopback interface, lo when you do a ifconfig, and contains one record.  
That record almost always is 127.0.0.1 which corresponds to the loopback 
network interface.