>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Maynard <jmaynard@phoenix.net> writes:

    Jay> On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:16:06AM -0400, gwr@netbsd.org wrote:
    >> 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).

    Jay> How about having it complain, and also turn it into the real IP
    Jay> address of le0 (or whatever the first non-lo interface it
    Jay> encounters)? As someone else mentioned, this makes things behave
    Jay> better in the presence of DNS forwarding...

  I don't think I want -lresolv groveling the list of interfaces. 127.0.0.1
is okay, and I think the bug of DNS forwarding is long gone.

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