Zone Template

[Sten Carlsen]

You would still have to change the mail address in the SOA. That is much
easier of course; I assume that @ can not be used there?

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <eg763f$2mfn$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Josh Hyles" <josh.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I am running a windows BIND server and am trying to figure out what
>> the best template would be for creating new sites. I currently use the
>> following...
>>
>> $ORIGIN .
>> $TTL 86400	; 1 day
>> domain_hosted.com		IN SOA	NS1.domain.com. root.domain_hosted.com. (
>> 				2006053001 ; serial
>> 				3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
>> 				7200       ; retry (2 hours)
>> 				604800     ; expire (1 week)
>> 				43200      ; minimum (12 hours)
>> 				)
>> 			NS	NS1.domain.com.
>> 			NS	NS2.domain.com.
>> 			A	63.247.73.122
>> 			MX	5 mail.domain_hosted.com.
>> $ORIGIN domain_hosted.com.
>> ftp			A	123.456.789.012
>> mail			A	123.456.789.012
>> www			A	123.456.789.012
>>
>> All of the "domain_hosted" entries must be changed to the new domain
>> that I am hosting... is there any better to do this?
>>     
>
> I'd leave out all the $ORIGIN statements, and use relative names (or @) 
> for the zone name.  Then you don't have to change anything for the new 
> domain -- the origin defaults to the name from the 'zone' statement in 
> named.conf.
>
> $TTL 86400      ; 1 day
> @               IN SOA  NS1.domain.com. root.domain_hosted.com. (
>                                 2006053001 ; serial
>                                 3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
>                                 7200       ; retry (2 hours)
>                                 604800     ; expire (1 week)
>                                 43200      ; minimum (12 hours)
>                                 )
>                         NS      NS1.domain.com.
>                         NS      NS2.domain.com.
>                         A       63.247.73.122
>                         MX      5 mail
> ftp                     A       123.456.789.012
> mail                    A       123.456.789.012
> www                     A       123.456.789.012
>
>   

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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