On 2/28/21 5:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Domain names without a trailing period are relative to the current origin.
> 
> Domain names with a trailing period are absolute.
> 
> If you want to add the record
> 
>       foo.bar.example.com. TXT …
> 
> and the current origin is example.com. You can enter it as
> 
>       foo.bar TXT …
> 
> or
> 
>       foo.bar.example.com. TXT …
> 
> or you could set the origin to bar.example.com. and do this
> 
>       $ORIGIN bar.example.com.
>       foo TXT …
> 
> This applies to all domain names in zone files.
> 
> Mark

OK that makes sense.  Thanks.  It's been so long since I configured these 
servers - and
they have worked so flawlessly - I forgot everything I knew about bind config 
files ;)
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