Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Digest, Vol 22, Issue 16

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:32:15AM +0530,
 venkatesh.bs <venkatesh.bs at globaledgesoft.com> wrote 
 a message of 225 lines which said:

>       what may be DNS behaviour if the DNS server address is 0.0.0.0

Why don't you test? :-)

% dig @0.0.0.0 SOA .
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       86400   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008091001 1800 900 604800 86400
...


0.0.0.0 means historically "this machine" (this behaviour does not
seem properly standardized in a RFC, by the way, and it certainly
would be dangerous to rely on it), so, in practice, it is not much
different from 127.0.0.1.
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