CNAME as @ line

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9l9na2$1t8 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jerry  <juanino at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hm. The problem I am trying to solve is where i need
>to create some new zones with various mispellings of a
>company name.  I wanted each of those @ lines for the
>mispellings to point to a CNAME so that I could change
>the CNAME at a later point in time without having to
>change all the @ lines.  As it is now I hard coded it
>to an ip which sucks because if they request to change
>the ip of the webserver I have to edit all those files
>(20 or more sometimes).  Any ideas?

Stop calling it the "@ line".  @ is just a way to abbreviate the current
origin in a zone file.

Why don't you make all the zone statements point to the same filename?
Just make sure all the names defined in the zone file are relative.

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