Apple DNS kindof funny

jeff donovan jdonovan at beth.k12.pa.us
Thu Dec 18 14:28:18 UTC 2003


greetings,

I have exported my zone files to 10.3.1 server. i edited the files 
manually, when i started dns through server admin. it over-wrote my 
forward zone file.
in this file i have many " $INCLUDE	dir/file.db " statements
example;

@	IN	SOA mydomin.com.	hostmaster.mydomain.com. (
				2003121801	; Serial number
				10800	; Refresh every 3hours
				3600	; Retry every hour
				604800	; Expire every 7 days
				86400 ) ; Minimum 2 days
;
;Name Servers
;
		IN	NS	ns1.mydomain.com.

;
		IN	MX	10 mail.mydomain.com.
		IN	A	192.168.0.2
;
localhost	IN	A	127.0.0.1
;
; aliases
pop	IN	CNAME	mail.mydomain.com.
;
host-1.mydomain.com.	IN	A	192.168.0.1
mail.mydomain.com.	IN	A	192.168.0.2
host-3.mydomain.com.	IN	A	192.168.0.3
;
;;; include these inside forward files
;
;forward files
;
;loc1
$INCLUDE	fwd-loc1/192.168.1.db
$INCLUDE	fwd-loc2/192.168.2.db
$INCLUDE	fwd-loc3/192.168.3.db
$INCLUDE	fwd-loc4/192.168.4.db

the system did not like this. it omitted the line completely and 
over-wrote the config.
please tell me that i am not going to have to enter all of my entry's 
in big file. Or did i format the file incorrectly? Bind 8 works fine 
like this.

see reference pg. 158, 162 DNS & BIND 4th ed.

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jeff donovan
basd network operations
(610) 807 5571 x4
AIM  xtdonovan 



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