From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 12: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FCA37BE0F for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:06:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with SMTP id e7EJ5we15355; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:05:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > Hi all! In named.conf each example seciont has a /* before and > after it. Am I safe in assuming that these are comments? (Ie. the same as > #) Sorry to ask but I know next to nothing about scripting and c code. :) Yes, the 8.x series of bind now take three styles of comments /* C style */ // C++ style ; traditional bind style NB: If you use the C style don't forget the closing */ /* The advantage of C style comments are that they can enclose multiple lines. */ > Also, in named.dvl the example I see says: "IN SOA > root.freebsd.mydomain.com ". Is this the same as > root@machinename.mydomain.com? Though that looks wrong. Assuming my > machine name is heorot, should I then use root.heorot.mydomain.com ? Correct. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message