A complete block?

[Randall Badilla]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > $INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> > $INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/X.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> > $INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/.
> > $INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/.
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> What is "$INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/." intended to accomplish? Looks like
> you're trying to $INCLUDE a Unix directory into your zone file. Not a file
> *in* that directory, mind you, but the directory *itself*. That's not going
> to work. A Unix directory is basically binary data and named isn't going to
> be able to parse it sanely as a resource record.

Ok. the $INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/. was to say "ident"
$INCLUDE /var/named/Interno/.....in-addr.arpa, etc.

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> Why don't you just put all of the PTR records directly into the
> 168.192.in-addr.arpa zone file? I'm not sure what the point is of all those
> $INCLUDEs...

Well, I ask because I didn't know how to do it!

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