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List:       djbdns
Subject:    Re: Why two SOAs in Brauer's LWDJBDNS SQL exporter?
From:       email builder <emailbuilder88 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-08-21 7:56:38
Message-ID: 20050821075639.95786.qmail () web51906 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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> email builder <emailbuilder88@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >   Since a "Z" record is written first, shouldn't the nameserver entries
> use
> > the "&" syntax instead of "."?  What am I missing?
> 
> Only the first SOA record is used by tinydns, so after a "Z" or ".",
> further "." lines are equivalent to "&".  It's common to always use
> ".", so that even if you remove all "Z" lines and all but one "."
> line, there will still be an SOA record, so tinydns will still answer
> queries.  If you use the add-* scripts in /service/tinydns/root/, you
> should use ".", since those scripts unfortunately don't recognize
> "Z"+"&" as equivalent to ".".

Understood.  Thank you for the excelent explanation!


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