BIND822 DUMP inconsistency

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.991112173511.25830A-100000 at osf1.gmu.edu>,
Steve WANG  <xwang4 at gmu.edu> wrote:
>Hi, All,
>
>We are running BIND822 on Windows NT. The following sentence
>	$ORIGIN dnsdu.com.
>was included in a zone master file.
>
>Later a dynamic update happened and BIND822 incporated it into the new
>zone master file. However the dumped file include
>	$ORIGIN com.
>Instead of 
>	$ORIGIN dnsdu.com.
>
>Is this fine?

As long as all the other names have been rewritten accordingly, it's fine.
$ORIGIN simply specifies a default suffix for names that don't end in ".".
So

$ORIGIN dnsdu.com.
foo  IN A  1.2.3.4

is equivalent to:

$ORIGIN com.
foo.dnsdu  IN A  1.2.3.4

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