Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:07:54AM +0100, Sam Wilson wrote: ... I *would* recommend using @ everywhere possible - it's so much less liable to typos than using the real domain and unnecessary obfuscation is not your friend when it comes to DNS administration. :) :) ... Seconded. I would

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/07/2010 16:17:13, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Quick, knee-jerk, which of these is one day? 86300 68300 863000 It's a trick question, right? Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:32:21PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2010 16:17:13, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Quick, knee-jerk, which of these is one day? 86300 68300 863000 It's a trick question, right? Very good! ;-) --

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-20 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.2120.1279397548.21153.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly planning to use the same

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no advantage to using @ in a one-zone file, and unnecessary obfuscation is

zone syntax question

2010-07-14 Thread CT
old zone file --- $ORIGIN . $TTL 3600 example.com IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com ( 2010071402 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 3600 ; retry (1 hour)

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-14 Thread Hauke Lampe
- Original message - example.com.              IN SOA  [...]                   IN          NS          ns.example.com.                   IN          MX 10    ns.example.com. The A record for ns.example.com is missing from your zone. Will my proposed set up work on the old