Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:35:31 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: DNS goofups galore... |
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Hello Matti ,
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: ...snip... > Answer to the self-education question above: > > The NAME fields in usual BIND systems get appended the current $ORIGIN > string value when the data in the field does not end with a dot: > > Wrong: IN MX 10 11.22.33.44 > "Right": IN MX 10 11.22.33.44. s/"Right"/Wrong/
(in the forward file) Right: IN MX 10 mymail.mydomain.com. Right:mymail.mydomain.com. IN A 11.22.33.44
(in a in-addr.arpa file) Right:44 IN PTR mymail.mydomain.com.
> The second appears at DNS lookup as "IN MX 10 11.22.33.44", which > is the intention aiming to use quite common misfeatures of system > libraries. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF IT WORKING AT NON-UNIX SYSTEMS! > Indeed there is no guarantee of it working at UNIX systems either! True ! . Hth , JimL
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