[Gllug] BIND zone file question

ab ajb at spkypc.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 4 22:28:23 UTC 2001


Applying for a linux job at the moment, and got sent a test to check how
resourceful
I am. One of the questions is spot the errors in the following zone file:

@   IN  SOA ns0.example.org.  hostmaster.example.org. (
                    2001103101  ;   Serial
                    28800       ;   Refresh
                    7200        ;   Retry
                    604800      ;   Expire
                    3600 )      ;   TTL Minimum
@   IN  A       212.111.16.78
@   IN  NS      ns0.example.org.
@   IN  NS      ns1.example.org.
@   IN  MX  10  mail.example.org

I spotted a missing fullstop at the end of the MX record making the
hostname relative to the origin,
and also that ns1 should be specified as an ip-address.
Dont like the look of the "@" origin symbols at the start of each line, but
this is valid syntax and the same
as leaving all RR domains blank.
Any other errors ?

/Anthony/


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