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From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple names
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 96 15:53:47 GMT
Organization: LiveNet, Inc.
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Message-ID: <4pc7mb$3rk_002@news.livenet.net>
References: <4p4clr$5lo@stratus.skypoint.net> <4p5rq1$1ok_006@news.livenet.net> <4p97pl$11f@anorak.coverform.lan>
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In article <4p97pl$11f@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:
>Jim Sloan (jsloan@LiveNet.Net) wrote:
>
>: artbbs.com is not a FQDN, but you can force the issue with
>: artbbs.com IN A 206.9.159.17
>
>Isn't it a killer when you forget the dot ? You mean
>artbbs.com. IN A 206.9.159.17
>
>--
>Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
Yeah, that dot will get you everytime. I can't count the times it has bitten
me trying to do that until I wrote a script that creates the initial domain.db
and sets up the SOA record
@ IN SOA domain.name who.domain.name (
YYYYMMDD01 3600 300 3600000 3600 )
IN NS primary.nameserver.name.
IN NS secondary.nameserver.name.
IN A www.xxx.yyy.zzz
IN MX 5 primary.mailhandler.name.
IN MX 10 secondary.mailhandler.name.
then all I have to worry about is machine names, and I can forget about the
dot :)
Although, It still gets me sometimes in the IN-ARPA and I talk about some
weird reverse lookup returns when you do that :)
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