Re: Two domains reporting errors

2014-09-27 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Doug Barton wrote: > The subsequent uses of the @ sign will inherit their labels from the > context of the previous label. The @ always gets replaced with the current origin. The origin starts out as the zone name from named.conf, and only changes when you use the $ORIGIN direct

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > > BIND will not allow you to use special characters such as '!' in owner > names of certain RRs types such as A, MX, etc. as they don't form valid > hostnames (see RFCs 1123 and 1912). But you can set the check-names option to relax the restrictions. Tony. -- f.anthony

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <65455.1411817...@server1.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > > For a special project, I need to be able to create resource > records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain > labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need > to be either (a) liter

Re: Two domains reporting errors

2014-09-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/25/14 4:49 PM, LuKreme wrote: Wait a second, so the zone name comes from the named.conf? Not quite. When named loads the zone file it does it in the context of the zone stanza from named.conf. If the zone name in the SOA is listed literally then named will check to make sure that it match

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20140927122322.ga4...@totoro.home.mukund.org>, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: >On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:31:07AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> For a special project, I need to be able to create resource >> records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain >> labels in some o

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Ronald On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:31:07AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > For a special project, I need to be able to create resource > records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain > labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need > to be either (a) literal asterisks

Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
For a special project, I need to be able to create resource records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need to be either (a) literal asterisks or else (b) literal exclamation marks. What's the most proper way to do this? Can I