Zone Template
Sten Carlsen
ccc2716 at vip.cybercity.dk
Sun Oct 8 01:01:34 UTC 2006
My problem was that I had overlooked an "$origin ." statement, I was
getting what I asked for. I was just asking for something else than what
I thought.
Again thanks to everyone, I learnt something today.
Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <eg8qth$2823$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Sten Carlsen <ccc2716 at vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
>
>
>> Doesn't work on 9.21, I just get "hostmaster." in an soa query from dig.
>>
>
> Then you must have typed "hostmaster." rather than "hostmaster". Any
> name without a trailing dot will have the origin appended, and this
> includes the fields in the SOA record.
>
>
>> I know 9.21 is ancient (the whole system is waiting to be replaced) but
>> has this changed since then? If so, about when.
>>
>> Barry Margolin wrote:
>>
>>> In article <eg8mqf$1rcu$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>>> Sten Carlsen <ccc2716 at vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> But a relative name can. If it's always root@<domain> or
>>> hostmaster@<domain>, you can just put "root" or "hostmaster" 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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"MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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