I need to manage multiple domains

Chris Thompson cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 21 16:01:25 UTC 2006


On Nov 20 2006, John Wobus wrote:
[...]
>In a zone file, BIND lets you use the at sign (@) to refer to the zone 
>to which named.conf assigns the zone file.  Using it, zone files can be
>created that do not include their own zone name.

More accurately, @ refers to the current origin, and zone files are 
interpreted with the origin initially set to the zone name. So if you
want to use @ to refer to the zone name, do not use a $ORIGIN directive
earlier in the zone file.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk



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