Zone Record Order

Josh Hyles josh.maillists at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 19:31:56 UTC 2006


Good point...

One other question.. do I need the "IN" option when doing these? I'm
not sure what it is for, but I've been able to get things working for
the last years with no problem without it.

Josh

On 10/6/06, Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:
> There's nothing wrong with putting the two records at the end - other
> than having the SOA record first, the order of records in a zone is
> usually unimportant. (If you disable RRSet reordering, then order of
> records in an RRSet becomes important.)
>
> Is there a reason not to simply specify a TTL in the two records?
> Like this:
>
> @       900     MX      5  mail.cvlsoft.net.
> mail    900     A       12.45.64.7
>
> Chris Buxton
> Men & Mice
> Take control of your network
>
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Josh Hyles wrote:
>
> > Sent this out as the wrong subject line, sorry.
> >
> > On 10/6/06, Josh Hyles <josh.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here is my record....
> >>
> >> $TTL 86400      ; 1 day
> >> @                       IN  SOA ns1.goatinatree.com.
> >> root.cvlsoft.net. (
> >>                                 2006100605   ; serial number
> >>                                 3600         ; refresh
> >>                                 7200         ; retry
> >>                                 604800       ; expire
> >>                                 86400      ) ; default TTL
> >>
> >> ;
> >> ;  Zone NS records
> >> ;
> >>
> >> @                       NS      ns1.goatinatree.com.
> >> @                       NS      ns2.goatinatree.com.
> >>
> >> ;
> >> ;  Zone records
> >> ;
> >>
> >> @                       TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:12.45.64.8 ~all"
> >> @                       A       63.247.73.122
> >> ftp                     A       63.247.73.122
> >> www                     A       63.247.73.122
> >> sqlsrv                  A       216.180.229.66
> >> websrv                  A       216.180.229.67
> >> $TTL 900        ; 15 minutes
> >> @                       MX      5       mail.cvlsoft.net.
> >> mail                    A       12.45.64.7
> >>
> >> #####################################################
> >>
> >>
> >> I am writing today because I'm trying to see if there is anything
> >> wrong with putting the MX record at the bottom like I did in order to
> >> only have 1 section for 15 minute TTL.
> >>
> >> Any help would be much appreciated
> >>
> >> Josh
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>



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