Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!karrer From: karrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: BIND master data file setup question Message-ID: <1991Jan18.185006.8114@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: 18 Jan 91 18:50:06 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich Lines: 20 I'm setting up a DNS server with authority for "my.dom" and anyhing below, e.g. fully qualified host names like "blurfl.my.dom" and "grok.this.my.dom". Question: can i put BOTH RR's in the SAME data file, as in: $ORIGIN my.dom. blurfl IN A 129.132.1.1 ... $ORIGIN this.my.dom. grok IN A 129.132.5.4 ... or do I have to set up TWO data files, one for "XXX.my.dom" hosts and one for "XXX.this.my.dom" hosts. or - worse - does this depend on the implementation of BIND? we're talking Ultrix4.0 and SunOS 4.1 here. - andi