syntax error in MX record

[Phil Howard]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:52:45PM +0200, Miek Gieben wrote:

| [On 16 Aug, @20:35, Phil wrote in "syntax error in MX record ..."]
| > Here's one that worked in NSD 1 but breaks in NSD 2:
| > 
| > @ 12h IN MX 0 @
| > 
| > It seems that the check on valid characters for the target host name for
| > the MX doesn't include the "@".  I wonder if it works for ".".  I worked
| > around this for now.
| 
| here is a patch against 2.1.2. This should add the usage of @ in the
| rdata of any type. I only tested it MX and NS,

It worked in my test for MX.  Thanks.  This makes it easy for a single
common zone file to be used for many zones, without having to add an
extra name for the MX host.

$TTL 12h
@ 12h IN SOA @ hostmaster 272965334 3h 30m 10d 12h
@ 12h IN NS @
@ 12h IN A 10.1.2.3
@ 12h IN MX 0 @
www 12h IN A 10.1.2.3

It also worked in PTR (which I expected from reading the patch).  Useless
there, but at least it's universal.

@ 12h IN PTR @

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