Hello Gregory,
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:04:58 +1300 Gregory Machin wrote: > Hi. > I have taken over some dns servers, and the process of doing upgrade, > half way through the process.. > > I have a question about the zone files , as there is some > configuration here that I have not seen before and seems out of > place. > > here is an excerpt of the zone file > > $TTL 14400 > > @ IN SOA example.com. postmaster.example.com. ( > 2010042142 ; Serial > 3600 ; Refresh (1 hours) > 1200 ; Retry (20 minutes) > 1728000 ; Expire (20 days) > 14400 ; Minimum (4 hours) > ) > IN NS ns1.example.com. > IN NS ns2.example.com. > ; IN NS ns1.catalyst.net.nz. > > IN MX 10 mail01.example.com. > IN MX 10 mail02.example.com. > ; IN MX 20 mail03.example.com. > > IN A 202.xx.xx.2 > > ns1 IN A 192.168.xx.xx > ns2 IN A 192.168.xx.xx > > listserv IN A 202.xx.xx.2 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > cache IN A 202.xx.xx.1 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > captaincomet IN A 202.xx.xx.1 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > louie IN A 202.xx.xx.1 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > mail01 IN A 192.168.xx.xx > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > mail02 IN A 192.168.xx.xx > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > nelson IN A 202.xx.xx.1 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr01 > IN MX 10 mcvpemr02 > > > My question is why would "IN MX 10 mcvpemr01" and "IN MX > 10 mcvpemr02" be repeated trough the zone file surely this is > redundant ? These MX record sets aren't redundant as they belong to the different labels named "listserv", "cache" etc. -- Yours sincerely, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) http://www.andris.name/ _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
