Why do SOA records use a '.' instead of an '@' for contact email addresses?
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A line typically found in a BIND zone file might look something like this:
@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. administrator.mydomain.com. (
Alowing @
in the email address would make parsing unnecessarily difficult and error prone.
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John Gardeniers
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