Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

[Ray Bellis]

On 21/12/2016 12:57, Harshith Mulky wrote:

> So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain
> 
> A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives?

Because someone thought they were being clever? :)
> 
> B. Can the above be replaced as below

Yes, and you could even remove the trailing `atlanta.com.` on some of
those records.

> $ORIGIN atlanta.com.
> $TTL 86400  ; 1 day
> @ IN SOA  local.atlanta.com. master.atlanta.com. (
>                 2001062522 ; serial
>                 21600      ; refresh (6 hours)
>                 3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>                 604800     ; expire (1 week)
>                 86400      ; minimum (1 day)
>                 )
>             NS  local.atlanta.com.
>             NS  kabulvm8.atlanta.com.
> ;A Records
> local           A   127.0.0.1
> kabulvm8        A   10.54.49.43

Ray