Domain Dns Zone File

If you ever need to modify the dns records of a domain you will need to edit the dns zone file because that s where the data is stored.

Domain dns zone file. A dns cache file which is just a copy of the authoritative zone file. A domain name system dns zone file is a text file that describes a dns zone a dns zone is a subset often a single domain of the hierarchical domain name structure of the dns. Importing records from a zone file. Authoritative zone file or primary zone file.

The zone file is a text file consisting of a series of resource records that form the domain name system dns database of the name server. These records identify which name server is responsible for a given zone timing parameters for zone transfers between name servers ip address to hostname mappings for hosts within the domains over which. In other words it will contains the entire ip to domain mapping of the domain during this tutorial i will be using a zone file made for bind berkeley internet name domain dns server which is a very widely used dns server package. You just have to get your domain s zone file from your current provider and import it.

In a dns zone file one record represents per line. A zone file may be either a dns master file. There are no special requirements for this course. Zone files are made in such a way that it can be made portable for any dns server.

Zone files are a standard practice in the dns industry so you can also use zone files to get your domain working on dnsimple for the first time. The zone file contains mappings between domain names and ip addresses and other resources organized in the form of text representations of resource records rr. Dns zone files is aimed at developers product managers product owners liaison managers team leads and executives in the area of domain names.