It forwards DNS requests to whatever upstream DNS servers you specify. – intelfx Jan 31 '19 at 2:53 Sometimes you know something and just ignore it, yes you right. – André M. Faria Jan 31 '19 at 11:46

Is anyone aware of a public wildcard domain name that resolves to IP address 127.0.0.1. For example if I wanted to test a URL locally such as mywebsite.localhost.com or example.localhost.com but I don't have control of DNS settings (hosts file or whatever) then I would use this public DNS to resolve to 127.0.0.1. Of course, if there is another server handling DNS on the network -- use that IP address instead!! But, I use and recommend 127.0.0.1 instead of the actual IP of the NIC when there's only one server and it's a DC of the forest. I've had my Server2003's going for almost 2 years now with no DNS issues using 127.0.0.1 # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost. bazanovv May 26, 2016 6:25 AM pretty clear that the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts is unfortunately not used. localhost and 127.0.0.1 are part of the loopback interface (lo0) and a lookup from /etc/hosts should suffice! no reason at all to query a DNS service unless explicitly specified. Jan 25, 2012 · DNS ISSUES connect failed: 127.0.0.1 # 953: connection refused. [1072]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Jan 26 19:41:58 ns1 named[1072]: stopping Apologies, after a few more google searches, it appears that it is the default behavior of USG to set its preferred DNS to 127.0.0.1. I was concerned that because I had changed things around when setting up the pihole, that I had set it to 127.0.0.1, and I had failed to reset it back correctly.

On Linux systems, you can install dnsmasq to pretend to be a real DNS server and actually respond with 127.0.0.1 for all subdomains of a top level domain. So, if you wanted *.local to always resolve to your own domain, then you can use URLs like this:

Each of the 2 DCs is also a DNS server and they syncronize. There are no more than these 2 DCs and 8 client machines in the whole domain. In the config of the only network card of each computer it is like this: The 8 client machines have an entry of DC1 as 1st and DC2 as 2nd DNS server. DC1 and DC2 both have 127.0.0.1 as DNS server entry.

Tjhe IPv4 Properties on the NIC are set to "Use the following DNS Server Address" - which before the last Webroot update was always the IP Address of the PC to allow the DNS filering service to "proxy" the request - it seems the latest version now changed that DNS address to the 127.0.0.1 Loopback, and this is where the problems arised.

Is anyone aware of a public wildcard domain name that resolves to IP address 127.0.0.1. For example if I wanted to test a URL locally such as mywebsite.localhost.com or example.localhost.com but I don't have control of DNS settings (hosts file or whatever) then I would use this public DNS to resolve to 127.0.0.1. Of course, if there is another server handling DNS on the network -- use that IP address instead!! But, I use and recommend 127.0.0.1 instead of the actual IP of the NIC when there's only one server and it's a DC of the forest. I've had my Server2003's going for almost 2 years now with no DNS issues using 127.0.0.1 # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost. bazanovv May 26, 2016 6:25 AM