Apple DNS kindof funny

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Dec 18 19:54:16 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.

	This is a dynamic zone?  Just let the server manage the file.
	Do NOT manually edit it.  Use 'nsupdate' to submit changes to
	the server.

> 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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> 
> 
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