[Gllug] BIND zone file question

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Thanks Mathew - yep it needs  "ns1 IN A ip-address"

Not quite some how the origin relative stuff works - I guess if I specify a
relative hostname such as ns1 that bind says the zone master is
ns0.example.org,
so example.org is the domain name. thus the absolute name of relative
ns1 is ns1.example.org. ??
Make sense ?

/Anthony/



Matthew King wrote:

> > 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/
>
> Well the retry/expire/etc. look a bit small, but I guess that's really up to
> the hostmaster.
>
> Incidentally NS records are not IP addresses. NS records are given IP
> addresses with normal A records later.
>
> Of course there's only one MX, which usually bad :-)
>
> Matthew
>
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