DNS/RFC and includes

From: fe (fe_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:15:10 -0800

Guys,

If you check the DNS RFCs, you can see that we can use a $INCLUDE parameter
in the Myzone.dns file to ask the DNS service to include all the records that
are in an external file

For example :

 MyZone.DNS
     $include Countrya.dns
     $include countryb.dns

It is very nice if you have a lot of names and if you want to split them in
different files.

Here is my question ...

According to the RFC (which is in UNIX) we can specify a full path to the
include files... but on Windows it does not work.. and I don't want to have
my file in the c:\windows\system32\dns directory...

I tried :
  $include c:\mydir\mars.dns
  $include "c:\mydir\mars.dns"

  .. but when I start the service, it appears in red in the MMC.

Do you have any advice ? I am stuck ..

Thanks for your help

Regards

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