September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
20h 6m
English
The last record you need to know is the SOA record, which is a mandatory record in all zone files, and is used to describe the zone and configure how often nameservers should update the zone file for this domain. It also has a version counter that ensures that only the latest version of the zone file is propagated:
hobnob.social. IN SOA ns1.digitalocean.com. dan.danyll.com ( <serial>, <refresh>, <retry>, <expiry>, <negativeTTL> )
The first few values are similar to the ones in the NS records. The rest are as follows:
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