> From: seebs@plethora.net
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:04:33 -0500
> 
> In message <199808162356.TAA10460@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
> der Mouse writes:
> >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....
> 
> Ugh.  Surprising, to say the least.
> 
> But I guess it makes sense, and it's not hard to adapt to,
> once you know about it.

This question come up enough that it might be worth having
the code that interprets resolv.conf convert 0.0.0.0 to
127.0.0.1 for you (or complain, or both).