On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:00:22PM +0000, Ray Bellis wrote: > On 21/12/2016 12:57, Harshith Mulky wrote: > > > So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain > > > > A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives? > > Because someone thought they were being clever? :)
named itself does this in automatically-generated zone files, but that's no reason for a human editor of zone files to do the same. > > B. Can the above be replaced as below > > Yes, and you could even remove the trailing `atlanta.com.` on some > of those records. > > > $ORIGIN atlanta.com. Furthermore this too could be omitted, since: zone "atlanta.com" IN { ... a zone statement implicitly sets $ORIGIN to the name of the zone. > > $TTL 86400 ; 1 day > > @ IN SOA local.atlanta.com. master.atlanta.com. ( These names could be relative rather than absolute: @ IN SOA local master ( > > 2001062522 ; serial > > 21600 ; refresh (6 hours) > > 3600 ; retry (1 hour) > > 604800 ; expire (1 week) > > 86400 ; minimum (1 day) > > ) > > NS local.atlanta.com. > > NS kabulvm8.atlanta.com. and these, likewise. NS local NS kabulvm8 > > ;A Records > > local A 127.0.0.1 > > kabulvm8 A 10.54.49.43 -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject: _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users