June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 1m
English
Different nameservers have differing representations of the DNS data being served, but for simplicity and because of its ubiquity, we'll use a traditional zone file format commonly used by BIND to display the components of a DNS zone:
;; This is an example zone file;; example.com;; generated: 02-Sep-2016 06:08:26 local time; 02-Sep-2016 10:08:26 GMT;$ORIGIN example.com.$TTL 86400@ IN SOA sns.dns.icann.org. noc.dns.icann.org. 2016110710 7200 3600 1209600 3600@ IN NS a.iana-servers.net.@ IN NS b.iana-servers.net.@ IN MX 0 mail.example.com.@ IN A 93.184.216.34@ IN AAAA 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946www IN CNAME example.com.
The zone may have more than one $ORIGIN. The first $ORIGIN usually corresponds to the domain we ...
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