Zone files

Domain zone file

$TTL 3h

; value that instructs non-authoritatively DNS servers how long to keep the data in cache

@          TTL          IN           SOA          primary_nameserver.  email_address. (

1000

; serial number – to be increased with each zone file modification

86400

; refresh – TTL for the secondary or slave server – after this time the slave/secondary will query the master

7200

; retry – in case of failure of the above

360000

; expire – after a failure this long of the master, the secondary/slave will no longer be authoritative

7200

; minimum – TTL for negative answers cached on non-authoritative DNS servers

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domain_name.          TTL          class(IN)          type(A,CNAME,MX,PTR,etc)          value

Delegation

In order to delegate another DNS server with a specific subdomain you need two entries:

subdomain.          NS        subdomain_nameserver.

subdomain_nameserver       A      name_server_ip

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