localhost in zonefile?

>> Don't know about HP_UX but it's generally recommeded to have this in so you
>> don't get surpises, after all, it's your loopback (local) host and you are
>> authorative for it, none else, including root servers. You'll also need a:
>> 
>> IN      PTR     localhost.
>> 
>> in there as well.
>
>NO.
>First, this PTR record belongs into the zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
>(or 127.in-addr.arpa, whichever you prefer) for the address 127.0.0.1 .
>Second, it is strongly recommended (see BIND operations guide) not to
>let it point to the fake top level domain 'localhost.' but to some
>localhost.<my>.<dom>.<ain> . For the latter there should be an A-RR for
>the IP-address 127.0.0.1 .

Peter,
Ok, ok - start again else confusion reigns, mabye I was not explicit and
I also forgot the 1 above - the joys of cut and paste.

One should run primary for 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, thus in the named.boot file :

primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa    named.local

Also a good idea is to stick this in:
; The following are to prevent really stupid queries from going past this server. 
; The zero and broadcast stuff
primary         0.IN-ADDR.ARPA          null
primary         255.IN-ADDR.ARPA        broadcast

and then in named.local file an SOA and an NS record - in my case same as the
origin thus the @:

@               IN      SOA     ecrc.de. hostmaster.ecrc.de. (
                        1.3     ;Serial
                        28800   ;Refresh
                        7200    ;Retry
                        604800  ;Expire
                        86400 ) ;Minimum
                IN      NS      ecrc.de.
1               IN      PTR     localhost.

Alternatively stick in instead of the @ line:

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa	IN SOA	whatever.tld - etc....

The null and broadcast files are essentially the same - only an SOA and
an NS record are needed.

>To answer the original question: Yes, you should have an entry
>localhost       A       127.0.0.1
>in your (forward) zone files. Note that the current origin will be appended
>to 'localhost' in the example, so you really will produce an entry like
>localhost.ucd.ie (if ucd.ie were this current origin) with this.
>
>Regards,
>  Peter

Ok - all true, and perhaps stick in these as well.......

localhost.      IN      A       127.0.0.1
localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
loghost         IN      CNAME   localhost.

Well - it seems to work for me ?
Dave