Domain data format change btwn DNS PRI and SEC

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Dec 3 16:10:15 UTC 1999


In article <014101bf3d4d$2ecc99c0$05160f2b at hse005.ssd.sony.co.jp>,
Masataka_Tanaka <mtanaka at ssd.sony.co.jp> wrote:
>Please let me clarify the point.
> 
>When we contain INCLUDE file like below,
>why decondary's same domain data file is neat with using $ORIGIN ??
>And what the name of script entity do so?

The program that does this is named-xfer.  It makes extensive use of
$ORIGIN so that the RNAME field is always just a single label.  This
usually makes the zone files smaller, because suffixes don't have to be
repeated.

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