Freezing Frontier (Was: Apple Rackmounts)

[Matt Neuburg]

On Thu, 16 May 2002 22:46:07 +0200, David Stodolsky
<david.stodolsky at socialinformatics.org> said:

>Strange things can happen if DNS is unavailable to OSX.
>
>Even with DNS, there is a know bug in the OSX loopback interface. In one
>case, I found the loopback address, 127.0.0.1, dead. In IE, however, the
>address localhost worked (at least once). In Omniweb, that address was dead.
>
>Somebody at Apple suggested a DNS entry like "localhost.example.com," as
>well as the standard "localhost," might be wise.
>
>Setting the inverse (PTR) records is also important with OSX.

How do I do that stuff? Thx. m.
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