more on adding domains

[RYAN vAN GINNEKEN]

n article <bp3e5k$145m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN  <rmvg at shaw.ca> wrote:

>>If hosting dns master for more than one domian at a single ip what is 
>>the best way to achive this the more I think about it the more confused 
>>I become. The first way that comes to mind goes something like this.
>>
>>Create a entery in named.conf like below
>>
>>zone "computerking.ca" {
>>
>>type master;
>>
>>file "pz/db.computerking.ca.external";
>>
>>};
>>
>>zone "102.206.205.in-addr.arpa" {
>>
>>type master;
>>
>>file "pz/db.205.206.102.computerking";
>>
>>};
>>
>>zone "sculpturaldesign.ca" {
>>
>>type master;
>>
>>file "db.sculpturaldesign.external";
>>
>>};
>>
>>zone "102.206.205.in-addr.arpa" {
>>
>>type master;
>>
>>file "pz/db.205.206.102.sculpturaldesign";
>>
>>};
>  
>

You can't have two different zone statements for the same
102.206.205.in-addr.arpa zone.  Only one of them will be used, the other
file will be ignored.

If you want to have separate files for the computerking and
sculpturaldesign PTR records, you can use the $INCLUDE directive.  Create a
main file "db.204.206.102" that contains:

$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA ns1.computerking.ca. root.computerking.ca. (
  ... )
  IN NS ns1.computerking.ca.
  IN NS higcoup.ca.

$INCLUDE db.204.206.102.computerking
$INCLUDE db.204.206.102.sculpturaldesign


-- Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com Level(3), Woburn, MA *** 
DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. 
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the 
group. so if i have two files they each have only one PTR record right? 
Does this make sense or have purpose? or should i just add both PTR 
records to one file what happens when i transfer to the slave machine i 
guess it must create all the files it needs right? I guess i do not need 
to add an A record to higcoup.ca.external that is taken care of with the 
computerking.ca.external file and the sculputraldesign.ca.external takes 
care of that? Which of these methods is more correct or is it just 
personal preference