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Thanks Kevin:

I have downloaded your response and will examine it at length.

Best regards,

Brian

In article <3872A97E.90A568AC at daimlerchrysler.com>,
  Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> Offhand, the only thing I see _wrong_ with it, is that you only have
one
> NS listed for the zone. You should have 2 or more.
>
> If we want to talk about style preferences, however, I'd probably
> replace the second and third "@"'s with white space, for readability,
> and move the "bloom-bay.com." A record above "localhost" and replace
its
> leftmost field with whitespace as well. I prefer to have all of the
> records which refer directly to the zone at the top of the file.
>
> I'd probably also just have one name for the address you're currently
> mapping as "bozo", "mail" and "ns1", and alias all of the other
> associated names to it. That way, it simplies reverse lookups and if
the
> address changes, I'd only need to change it in one place. On the other
> hand, if you expect to be splitting off the nameserver and/or mail
> functions to separate machines anytime soon, then maybe it makes more
> sense to have different names.
>
> I assume your DNS provider takes care of the $TTL directive, or that
its
> software doesn't require one. Otherwise, you'll need to add that to
the
> top of the zone file as well.

<clipped for brevity>

> In DNS terms, they're not "the same box"; just two arbitrary
> name-to-address mappings which happen to be contained in the same
zone.

> - Kevin

Thanks again Kevin.


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