MX TTL syntax
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at center.osis.gov
Tue Feb 17 17:21:51 UTC 2004
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:17:00PM -0500, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <c0tc41$bgt$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> David Botham <DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > > of course i could write
> > >
> > > domaina.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> > > domainb.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> >
> > This would not work for a few reasons.
> >
> > 1) You are missing the trailing dot '.' at the end of the line.
> >
> > 2) Assuming that the zones in question are:
>
> Why is this an assumption -- he showed the named.conf file and these
> *are* the zone names (modulo some obvious typos -- "doamin" instead of
> "domain").
>
> > domaina.mydomain.do.
> > domainb.mydomain.do.
No, the originals lacked a terminating '.', which means that the actual
domains were "domaina.mydomain.do.whatever.base.domain.used." and
"domainb.mydomain.do.whatever.base.domain.used."
However, the ASSUMPTION made - that the person forgot the dots [as we
all do from time to time] - was reasonable.
;-)/2
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Joe Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Systems Support EMT-B
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