What is wrong with my second $ORIGIN

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Thu Sep 14 12:21:20 UTC 2017


Mukund Sivaraman <muks at isc.org> wrote:
>
> Missing a trailing period(.)

Here's a fun trick to avoid making this mistake: use FQDNs everywhere in
the zone file, and use the directive

	$ORIGIN .

so that it doesn't matter whether you have the trailing . or not.

Downside, of course, is that you have to repeat your domain name about a
gazillion times.

Tony.
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