Bind v9.1.3: Use of $ORIGIN in zone files

Will Yardley william+dns at hq.newdream.net
Tue Sep 25 11:56:06 UTC 2001


Roy Arends wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, dgoogle wrote:
 
> > Has anyone used the $ORIGIN option in the zone files with any success?

> example:
> 
> 
>      $ORIGIN example.com.

note that '$ORIGIN' is implied to be whatever zone is listed in
named.conf unless one is specified; so you can just do:
$TTL 600
@	IN SOA

assuming your zone file is relative to the implied origin.

w

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