zone syntax question

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Tue Jul 20 09:07:54 UTC 2010


In article <mailman.2120.1279397548.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote:
> 
> > I would replace example.com in the SOA with @
> 
> I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly 
> planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no 
> advantage to using @ in a one-zone file, and unnecessary obfuscation is 
> not your friend when it comes to DNS administration. :)

I *would* recommend using @ everywhere possible - it's so much less 
liable to typos than using the real domain and unnecessary obfuscation 
is not your friend when it comes to DNS administration. :) :)

Sam



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