Re: DNS/RFC and includes

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:11:25 -0600

> 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

You might supply the RFC number -- the DNS developers
read this newsgroup and if it is truly a required RFC, which
is doubtful, then they will likely take an interest and fix it.

The reason it is doubtful that this is a required RFC is that
such would describe the internal storage of the server
rather than how the DNS server interacts on the network.

On the other hand, if it does describe the details of the zone
file as a requirement that might make some sense.

Microsoft does tout that their DNS is RFC compliant
and BIND compatible (note that BIND is in no technical
way the "reference implementation" of a DNS server.) 

-- 
Herb Martin
"fe" <fe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:56B4DF87-204A-4138-BB9E-1705DE048BD1@microsoft.com...
> 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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