MX TTL syntax

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:17:00PM -0500, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <c0tc41$bgt$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  David Botham <DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > > of course i could write 
> > > 
> > > domaina.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> > > domainb.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> > 
> > This would not work for a few reasons.
> > 
> > 1)  You are missing the trailing dot '.' at the end of the line.
> > 
> > 2)  Assuming that the zones in question are:
> 
> Why is this an assumption -- he showed the named.conf file and these 
> *are* the zone names (modulo some obvious typos -- "doamin" instead of 
> "domain").
> 
> > domaina.mydomain.do.
> > domainb.mydomain.do.

No, the originals lacked a terminating '.', which means that the actual
domains were "domaina.mydomain.do.whatever.base.domain.used." and
"domainb.mydomain.do.whatever.base.domain.used."

However, the ASSUMPTION made - that the person forgot the dots [as we
all do from time to time] - was reasonable.

;-)/2

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