Explict Origin???

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu Dec 14 17:50:00 UTC 2000


On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:12:15PM +0500, simmen : wrote:
> 
> does the explicit Origin mean ....the origin picked up as default from the 
> zone statement..
> for example
> 
> //zone
> zone    "my.net"{
>          type master;
>          file "my.net");
> //file "my.net"
> 
> @   IN   SOA   ns.my.net.    admin.my.net.{
>                ..so on..
> 
> will the "@" pick the origin as  "my.net" defined in the zone statement?

That is the IMPLICIT "$origin".  It is IMPLIED by your zone{}
statement.  An EXPLICIT "$origin" would be one that you can actually
see:

$ORIGIN		subdomain.my.net.
# ns.subdomain.my.net.
ns		IN A		10.15.0.2

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