Re: Simple question - trailing "." in zone file

2024-11-21 Thread Mark Andrews
The final period is a way of differentiating relative and absolute domain names. In zone files there is the $ORIGIN value (defaults to the zone name) that names are relative to. This is there to reduce the amount of typing people have to do when entering records. To enter a name that doesn’t e

Re: Simple question - trailing "." in zone file

2024-11-21 Thread Rick Dicaire
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 12:45 PM David Carvalho via bind-users < bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for this “beginner” question. If I knew this before, than I > completely forgot. > > I know a “.” Inside a zone file can be used to define top level entry .If > a record entry doesn’t

Simple question - trailing "." in zone file

2024-11-21 Thread David Carvalho via bind-users
Hi! Sorry for this "beginner" question. If I knew this before, than I completely forgot. I know a "." Inside a zone file can be used to define top level entry .If a record entry doesn't have it, it gets itself along with the domain name. Today I was comparing my master and slave, which provide