simple config not so simple

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9qod5m$ict at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
george bagley <george_working at hotmail.com> wrote:
>The file abc.com.db contains the following
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>$ORIGIN abc.com
>$TTL 86400
>
>@       IN SOA abc.com. proxy.abc.com. (
>                                2001053100      ; serial
>                                10800           ; refresh after 3
>hours
>                                3600            ; retry after 1 hour
>                                604800          ; expire after 1 week
>                                86400)          ; minimum TTL of 1 day
>
>        IN NS   ns.abc.com

That should have a "." at the end of the hostname.  And if you have any
secondary servers, you should add NS records for them as well.

>The file reverse.abc.com.db contains the following
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>$TTL 864000
>
>@       IN SOA abc.com. proxy.abc.com. (
>                                2001053100      ; serial
>                                10800           ; refresh after 3
>hours
>                                3600            ; retry after 1 hour
>                                604800          ; expire after 1 week
>                                86400)          ; minimum TTL of 1 day
>
>1.1     IN      NS      ns.abc.com

That should be:

         IN      NS      ns.abc.com.

>I know I have a problem with my zone file.  I cannot however find a
>consistent pattern to the formatting of these files.
>Ther is no shortage of info on how to set up named.conf and rndc.conf.
> That real good and all that,  but where's the doco on zone files?

The book "DNS & BIND".

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