> I had a line [in resolv.conf] saying
> 	nameserver	0.0.0.0
> and everything was fine.

> Now, this doesn't work; [...] [h]owever,
> 	nameserver	127.0.0.1
> works just fine.

This is not really a change to resolv.conf.  It's a change to the
networking code, so that 0.0.0.0 is no longer interpreted as "this
host".  I don't recall details of why this was done, but it did provoke
some discussion at the time, on at least one of the lists I'm on....

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