Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:32:21PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 24/07/2010 16:17:13, Joseph S D Yao wrote: > > Quick, knee-jerk, which of these is > > one day? > > 86300 > > 68300 > > 863000 > > It's a trick question, right? Very good! ;-) -- /

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/07/2010 16:17:13, Joseph S D Yao wrote: > Quick, knee-jerk, which of these is > one day? > 86300 > 68300 > 863000 It's a trick question, right? Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:07:54AM +0100, Sam Wilson wrote: ... > I *would* recommend using @ everywhere possible - it's so much less > liable to typos than using the real domain and unnecessary obfuscation > is not your friend when it comes to DNS administration. :) :) ... Seconded. I would a

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-20 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: > > > I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ > > I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly > planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no > advantage to using @ in

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no advantage to using @ in a one-zone file, and unnecessary obfuscation is

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-14 Thread Lyle Giese
You don't have an origin nor an A record for ns.example.com. I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ and you are missing the space between the authoritive name server and the email address. Also missing a period at the end of the email address. I kept my time periods in seconds since that is

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-14 Thread Hauke Lampe
- Original message - > example.com.              IN SOA  [...] >                  IN          NS          ns.example.com. >                  IN          MX 10    ns.example.com. The A record for ns.example.com is missing from your zone. > Will my proposed set up work on the "old

zone syntax question

2010-07-14 Thread CT
old zone file --- $ORIGIN . $TTL 3600 example.com IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com ( 2010071402 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 3600 ; retry (1 hour)