Generic Zone File??

[Kevin Darcy]

You'd have to use separate files for the slave copies of the zone, but who cares?
It's not like anyone has to maintain the slave copies, and disk is cheap...


- Kevin

Chris Meadors wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> > If you have only constant information in all of those zones (e.g. an MX pointing
> > at mail.xyz.com) or only zone-relative information (e.g. ftp.{domain}.com is
> > always an alias to www.{domain}.com), or only a combination of constant and
> > zone-relative information, then you could probably point all of the zone
> > definitions to the same file, and you'd only have one zone file to maintain.
>
> What do you do on the slave side of things?  When the zone is transfered
> over @ORIGIN statements are thrown into the file, making it impossible to
> use the same zone for all the domains on the slave.
>
> -Chris
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