zone syntax question

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Sat Jul 17 20:12:14 UTC 2010


On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote:

> I would replace example.com in the SOA with @

I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly 
planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no 
advantage to using @ in a one-zone file, and unnecessary obfuscation is 
not your friend when it comes to DNS administration. :)


Doug

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