syncronizing 2 dns server (windows/linux)

[Josh Hyles]

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In my example, the one using @ doesn't have an origin, and none of the line=
s
above the first origin have the domain on them, so how is that record
functioning correctly?

On 9/24/05, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> In article <dh2e8i$13qk$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Josh Hyles <josh.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, I am manually maintaining these files and I just wanted to make
> sure =3D
> > I
> > was doing it correctly. So if I use the origin, I dont need the @ for
> lines
> > that have no reference... ie: the spf record... ?
>
> You use @ whenever the name you're defining a record for is the same as
> the origin. If a line begins with whitespace, it uses the name from the
> previous line. Whether to use $ORIGIN is a personal style decision,
> it's never required; it merely allows you to abbreviate names that end
> in the same suffix.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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