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[Chris Buxton]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Daniel McDonald wrote:
> On 7/28/11 3:16 AM, "uifiddle at gmail.com" <uifiddle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> my czj.zone
>> $TTL 86400
>> czj.       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
>>                                      1997022700 ; Serial
>>                                      28800      ; Refresh
>>                                      14400      ; Retry
>>                                      3600000    ; Expire
>>                                      86400 )    ; Minimum
>> czj.     IN      NS      localhost.
>> kia IN A 192.168.18.1
> 
> Don't you need 
> $ORIGIN czj. 
> in order to add an unrooted entry?
> 
> SOA and NS of localhost. seems wrong.  localhost.localdomain. seems more
> likely.

No. And no. Please try not to send false information to the list.

The answer to the OP's question is evident in his message. It's a basic misunderstanding of the ACL localhost in named.conf.

Chris Buxton
BlueCat Networks