From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 13 22:26:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBAB16A402 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B1113C4B5 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [66.92.130.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6DMQkWl098879 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:26:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4697FC20.9050805@tundraware.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:26:40 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <468972C5.9090902@tundraware.com> <200707021722.05724.josh@tcbug.org> <4697A498.5000501@tundraware.com> <200707131230.51214.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200707131230.51214.josh@tcbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 -> Bind 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:26:53 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote: > > Sure, you can $INCLUDE a file in to a zonefile. :) > Yup - that sure does it. However, it is still possible to do Very Stupid Things (tm). Anyone running bind should not that this combination of things causes great silliness: $ORIGIN mydomain.com. @ IN SOA ...... ; Nameservers IN NS foo.mydomain.com ; oops, missing trailing period Really dumb, and it had my wondering what was wrong with my $INCLUDE - nothing, of course. Thanks for the help. I now have a nice clean db.external with a corresponding view. db.internal merely $INCLUDES db.external as its first statement and has a corresponding view. Now when I modify *anything* - $TTL, a host definition ... whatever, it propagates into both views with a single edit. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/