confused about ORIGIN and also named-checkzone
Scott Haneda
talklists at newgeo.com
Fri Oct 31 02:11:38 UTC 2008
I think I understand. Origin set a base for entries that are
unqualified and do not have a trailing dot.
So my new zone is valid and just being organized in a highly granular
way.
Any additional comments to help me learn more about this are much
appreciated.
--
Scott
Iphone says hello.
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:
> I moved a server to using named and manage it in the shell, I used to
> use a desktop app that did it for me.
>
> In the process, when I edit a zone, I will push it throug the below
> command, to clean it up, and then I delete the first line, and last
> line in the output of the zone, and reload rndc
>
> named-checkzone -D -s relative example.com example.com-hosts
>
> It adds in $ORIGIN lines, which I am not sure entirely what they are
> for, at least, not in the way it is adding them in. Here is an
> example zone, that works now
>
> $TTL 86400
> @ 86400 IN SOA ns1.my-company.com. scott.my-
> company.com. 2008033103 28800 7200 604800 7200
> @ IN NS ns1.my-company.com.
> captain.rustall.com IN A 127.0.0.2 ;Whitelist
> for winnow
> lists.mysql.com IN A
> 127.0.0.2 ;lists.mysql.com
> 12.153.224.55 IN A 127.0.0.2 ;Etrade.com
> messaging.nextel.com IN A
> 127.0.0.2 ;messaging.nextel.com
> moveon.org IN A 127.0.0.2
> gmail.com IN A 127.0.0.2
> dotster.com IN A 127.0.0.2
> ebay.com IN A 127.0.0.2
> stmproducts.com IN A
> 127.0.0.2 ;stmproducts.com is on dynamic
> returns.groups.yahoo.com IN A 127.0.0.2 ;yahoo groups
> chopra.com IN A 127.0.0.2 ;they hit a
> spamtrap
> barebones.com IN A 127.0.0.2
> 202.128.20.175 IN A
> 127.0.0.2 ;endtimeprophecy.org - Wordweaver
>
> After I run it through named-checkzone with -D and -s, relative, I get
> the below output, which does not make sense. If $ORIGIN sets a base
> of all below it, then it seems wrong to me...
>
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 86400 ; 1 day
> wl.my-company IN SOA ns1.my-company.com. scott.my-
> company.com. (
> 2008103000 ; serial
> 28800 ; refresh (8 hours)
> 7200 ; retry (2 hours)
> 604800 ; expire (1 week)
> 7200 ; minimum (2 hours)
> )
> NS ns1.my-company.com.
> NS ns1.nacio.com.
>
> $ORIGIN wl.my-company.com.
> 202.128.20.175 A 127.0.0.2
> 12.153.224.55 A 127.0.0.2
>
> $ORIGIN com.wl.my-company.com.
> barebones A 127.0.0.2
> chopra A 127.0.0.2
> constantcontact A 127.0.0.2
> dotster A 127.0.0.2
> ebay A 127.0.0.2
> gmail A 127.0.0.2
> lists.mysql A 127.0.0.2
> messaging.nextel A 127.0.0.2
> captain.rustall A 127.0.0.2
> stmproducts A 127.0.0.2
> returns.groups.yahoo A 127.0.0.2
> $ORIGIN wl.my-company.com.
> moveon.org A 127.0.0.2
>
> I hope I am reading this wrong, or I just fubar'd a whole bunch of
> zones :)
> Thanks for any guidance
> --
> Scott
>
>
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