Zonefile example¶
On this page we give an example of a basic zone file and it’s contents.
We recommend using the nsd-checkzone tool to verify that you have a working zone.
Creating a zone¶
A minimal zone needs exactly one SOA (Source Of Authority) and one or more NS (Name Server) records. Refer to appropriate documentation of you need to learn about DNS basics.
$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 86400 ; default time-to-live for this zone
example.com. IN SOA ns.example.com. noc.dns.example.org. (
2020080302 ;Serial
7200 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
1209600 ;Expire
3600 ;Negative response caching TTL
)
; The nameservers that are authoritative for this zone.
NS example.com.
; A and AAAA records are for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses respectively
example.com. A 192.0.2.1
AAAA 2001:db8::3
; A CNAME redirects from www.example.com to example.com
www CNAME example.com.
mail MX 10 example.com.