Question about a dot in hostname

[Mark Andrews]

> I'm having an issue with the following
> 
> Host.name.domain.com where host.name is the hostname of the system
> 
> I'm running bind 9.3.2 on debian 3.1, the zone loads and serves up the
> address, but when I do a zone xfer 
> The .name is removed and all I get is the "host" part
> 
> I've tried doing a cname like this
> 
> Host	IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
> Host.name IN CNAME host
> 
> But the .name gets stripped from that as well.
> 
> What are my options to make this work?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Brian

	You are most probably ignoring $ORIGIN changes in the
	transfered zone file.  Named writes out a relative master
	zone file with $ORIGIN changes.
	
	e.g.
		$ORIGIN zone.
		...
		name A xx.xx.xx.xx
		$ORIGIN name.zone.
		Host CNAME host.zone.

	Mark

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