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-An [Acronym] for __S__tart __O__f __A__uthority.
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-A [DNS]
[SOA] Record is used to define some information about a domain (called a zone, defined in a ZoneFile), such as a serial number defining the 'version' of the zone, and various timeout and caching values that should be used when records from a given zone are retrieved.
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-An example [SOA] record looks like this:
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-<pre>
- $TTL 604800
- $ORIGIN ethernal.tla.
- @ IN SOA ns1.ethernal.tla. root.ethernal.tla. (
- 2004111901 ; Serial
- 604800 ; Refresh (7 days)
- 86400 ; Retry (24 hours)
- 2419200 ; Expire (28 days)
- 604800 ) ; Neg TTL (7 days)
-</pre>
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-The format of a [SOA] [RR] is "<tt>name <ttl> class rr name-server email-address (serial refresh retry expire negttl)</tt>"
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-The name is given as "<tt>@</tt>", since that is the shorthand for the value of <tt>$ORIGIN</tt>. [TTL] is missing from this example, as it takes the zone default defined above as <tt>$TTL</tt>. The class will usually always be IN, [RR] should be obvious :). The name-server field is bascally the [FQDN] of the PrimaryNameServer for the domain (don't forget the trailing '.'!). The email-address field is the address of the person responsible for the domain - the first dot should be read as an <tt>@</tt>, so above should be read as <tt>root@ethernal.tla</tt>.
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-The values in parenthesis are described below:
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-Serial number
- Generally given in YYYYMMDDXX format, giving 100 possible revisions of any given zone in a day (Usually more than enough).
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-Refresh
- Defines the number of seconds before a SecondaryNameServer will refresh its copy of the zone by requesting a ZoneTransfer from the PrimaryNameServer.
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-Retry
- Defines the number of seconds for a SecondaryNameServer to wait before retrying a zone refresh, after a failure.
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-Expire
- Defines the number of seconds for a SecondaryNameServer to keep zone records, and answer authoritatively with them if it can't contact the PrimaryNameServer. (so, if the above refresh fails, and it's been retrying for this long).
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-Neg TTL
- Defines the number of seconds that a client should remember that a negative response was received from this server. So, if a remote server asks us what the address for <tt>foo.ethernal.tla</tt> is but it doesn't exist, it will cache the negative answer we gave it for this many seconds, even if we add that name to the zone a couple of seconds later
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-Todo:
-* Someone should explain TTLs a bit better, especially the use of <tt>$TTL</tt>
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-CategoryDns
+Describe
[SOA] here
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