On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:31:54PM -0500, Eric Berg <eberg at bergbrains.com> wrote a message of 28 lines which said: > However, I see that SOA records do begin with an ORIGIN, but you can use > "@" instead of a domain. In the case of your using "@", is the ORIGIN set > by virtue of the zone reference in named.conf? Yes.