MX TTL syntax

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c0tc41$bgt$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 David Botham <DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com> wrote:

> > of course i could write 
> > 
> > domaina.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> > domainb.mydomain.do 3600 IN A 10 mailserver.domainc.do
> 
> This would not work for a few reasons.
> 
> 1)  You are missing the trailing dot '.' at the end of the line.
> 
> 2)  Assuming that the zones in question are:

Why is this an assumption -- he showed the named.conf file and these 
*are* the zone names (modulo some obvious typos -- "doamin" instead of 
"domain").

> domaina.mydomain.do.
> domainb.mydomain.do.
> 
> Then, one of the RR's above would always be rejected as out of zone data 
> in one of the zones.

It would still work -- the out-of-zone data is simply ignored.  However, 
your recommendation to use "@" as the substitute for the zone name is 
the preferred solution.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA