Best implementation of many zonfiles containing the same info (to avoid duplicate IP-nr)

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Sep 13 01:31:16 UTC 2006


In article <ee6r0p$7bd$1 at sf1.isc.org>, news at teknologia.com wrote:

> Is it possible to change the domain name in the SOA-record to a @  ??

Yes?  In fact, that's how most people write their SOA records, I think:

@ IN SOA masterns.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com. ( ...

I strongly recommend this.  Even when you're not trying to share a zone 
file between zones, it makes it easy to cut and paste the SOA record.

> 
> Example:
> =====
> $TTL  14400
> @       IN      SOA     domainname.com.       registry.latitud.net. (
>       2006041201 ; Serial
>                         14400 ; Refresh
>                         900 ; Retry
>                         604800 ; Expire
>                         3600 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
> @       IN      NS      ns.isp.net.
> ======
> 
> // Martin
> 
> 
> Barry Margolin skrev:
> 
> > In article <edrs9j$an0$1 at sf1.isc.org>, news at teknologia.com wrote:
> >
> > > When handling a lot of domain names you want to avoid the same IP-nr in
> > > many zonefiles, but how is best way of doing it?
> >
> > If all the zones are identical, you can simply use the same filename in
> > all the "zone" statements.  In the zone file, use @ to refer to the zone
> > name, and make all other names unqualified.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***

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