$ORIGIN . problems

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Sep 7 17:55:19 UTC 2001


In article <9naukc$k7i at pub3.rc.vix.com>, news.easynet.net <fhgfj at fhf.nm> wrote:
>For now I have removed the $ORIGIN . files from my zonefiles so that the
>nameserver is working but this is clearly not the way to do it

Why not?  The default origin is the zone name from named.conf, and this is
usually sufficient.  $ORIGIN is useful if you have a subdomain and you
don't want to have to keep repeating it, e.g. instead of:

www.accounting IN A 1.2.3.4
mail.accounting IN A 1.2.3.5

you might do:

$ORIGIN accounting.company.com.
www IN A 1.2.3.4
mail IN A 1.2.3.5

But there's little reason to use $ORIGIN if everything is just in the
domain named in the named.conf.

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