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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>We have bind running <span>bind-9.9.4-29.el7.x86_64</span></p>
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<p>We have a domain file with these configurations and we have to build our A records on top of this</p>
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<div>$ORIGIN .<br>
$TTL 86400 ; 1 day<br>
atlanta.com IN SOA local.atlanta.com. master.atlanta.com. (<br>
2001062522 ; serial<br>
21600 ; refresh (6 hours)<br>
3600 ; retry (1 hour)<br>
604800 ; expire (1 week)<br>
86400 ; minimum (1 day)<br>
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NS local.atlanta.com.<br>
NS kabulvm8.atlanta.com.<br>
$ORIGIN atlanta.com.<br>
$TTL 300 ; 5 minutes<br>
local A 127.0.0.1<br>
kabulvm8 A 10.54.49.43</div>
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<p>So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain</p>
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<p>A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives? <br>
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<p>B. Can the above be replaced as below</p>
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<span>$ORIGIN atlanta.com.<br>
<span>$TTL 86400 ; 1 day</span><br>
<div>@ IN SOA local.atlanta.com. master.atlanta.com. (<br>
2001062522 ; serial<br>
21600 ; refresh (6 hours)<br>
3600 ; retry (1 hour)<br>
604800 ; expire (1 week)<br>
86400 ; minimum (1 day)<br>
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NS local.atlanta.com.<br>
NS kabulvm8.atlanta.com.</div>
;A Records<br>
<div>local A 127.0.0.1<br>
kabulvm8 A 10.54.49.43</div>
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<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Harshith<br>
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