@ A free standing @ is used to denote the current origin. By default, the origin is the zone name, but it can be changed with $ORIGIN. -- Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.