Slight Difference between one DNS and Another

[Ronan Flood]

Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:

> 	The zone that likes to append the domain name if one leaves
> off the trailing dot has a configuration that looks like:
> 
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 3600	; 1 hour
> different.net	IN SOA	dns0a.mydomain.net. martin.deadratsnogood4doorstops.net. (
> 				305575     ; serial
> 				3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
> 				600        ; retry (10 minutes)
> 				604800     ; expire (1 week)
> 				21600      ; minimum (6 hours)
> 				)
> $TTL 43200	; 12 hours
> 			NS	dns0a.mydomain2.net.
> 
> 	They pretty much look the same to me yet the one I label as
> different is the only one out of about 4 domains I have set up that I
> must always remember to append the dots.

Does that second $TTL reset the origin to the zone base, perhaps?

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                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
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