The @ Notation - Clarity

[Mark Damrose]

"Walker Simon-SWALKER1" <swalker at metrowerks.com> wrote in message
news:asn94l$5tgo$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
>
>
> Thanks Len for the response! ... you are right I am confused.
>
> So in effect I could have the following in my named.conf pointing to my
zone file :
>
> zone "xyz.net" in {
> type master;
> file "db.xyz.net";
>
> And the following in my zone data file (xyz.net) :
>
> $TTL 3h
> @ IN SOA host-123.xyz.net. admin.yxz.net. (
> 1 ; serial
> 3h ; refresh after 3 hours
> 1h ; retry after 1 hour
> 1w ; Expire after 1 week
> 1h) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 day
>
> ;
> ; Name Servers
> ;
> IN NS host-123.xyz.net.

Make sure you have a space before the IN on the line above.

> ;
> ; Addresses For Canonical Names
> ;
> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
> host-123 IN A 192.168.10.1
> host-456 IN A 192.168.10.2
>
>
> And the hosts would still be build correctly to be, for example
host-123.xyz.net. as the @ notation completes the current origin, that being
xyz.net.
>
> Phew....
>
> Regards,
>
> Si.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:LConrad at Go2France.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:51 AM
> > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: The @ Notation - Clarity
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >It mentions shortcuts and one of them in the "@" notation.
> > >
> > >As I have read the @ is replaced in the zone file by the
> >
> > ... "current" ...
> >
> > >origin, which comes
> > >from the zone statement in named.conf?
> >
> > ... which provide the "default" origin to the "top" of the zone file
> >
> > >  The main question is do I need to
> > >have a trailing period (.) in the zone statement so that @
> > is complete when
> > >it is replaced in the zone file.
> >
> > no.
> >
> > >So should named.conf be like so?
> > >
> > >zone "xyz.com."{
> > >type master;
> > >file "bxyz.com.";
> > >};
> > >
> > >With the trailing period (.) or can I leave it off
> >
> > yes
> >
> > >as BIND would know this is complete.
> >
> > You are confusing zone file syntax with the completely
> > different named.conf
> > syntax.
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
> >
>