Networking Guide
Chapter 6, Configuring the Domain Name Service

Sample named.local file

Sample named.local file

named.local(SFF) specifies the PTR record for the loopback interface, localhost, whose network address is 127.0.0.1. The PTR record, which should point back to the localhost name for the given zone, is vital if you want users to be able to use hostname authentication via hosts.equiv or .rhosts on the name localhost. The name of this PTR record is always 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.

   @       IN   SOA   volga.mynet.COM. dave.mynet.COM (
                      1993091901 ; Serial
                      10800     ; Refresh
                      1800      ; Retry
                      3600000   ; Expire
                      259200 )   ; Minimum
           IN   NS    volga.mynet.COM
           IN   NS    istanbul.mynet.COM
   1       IN   PTR   localhost.mynet.COM