Re: Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

2016-12-21 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:00:22PM +, Ray Bellis wrote: > On 21/12/2016 12:57, Harshith Mulky wrote: > > > So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain > > > > A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives? > > Because someone thought they were being clever? :) named itself does this in

Re: Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

2016-12-21 Thread Nis Wechselberg
Am 21.12.2016 um 14:12 schrieb Petr Mensik: > A) $ORIGIN changes appended suffix to all hostnames without trailing . for > all following records. You can change it more than one time. > Unless I am mistaken, NS records of first section would expand to > . NS local.atlanta.com. > . NS kabulvm8.atla

Re: Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

2016-12-21 Thread Petr Mensik
A) $ORIGIN changes appended suffix to all hostnames without trailing . for all following records. You can change it more than one time. Unless I am mistaken, NS records of first section would expand to . NS local.atlanta.com. . NS kabulvm8.atlanta.com. That seems wrong to me. B) Yes, it is almos

Re: Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

2016-12-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21/12/2016 12:57, Harshith Mulky wrote: > So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain > > A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives? Because someone thought they were being clever? :) > > B. Can the above be replaced as below Yes, and you could even remove the trailing `atlanta.com.