Stealth dns and SOA record

[Barry Margolin]

In article <949540022.216669 at shelley.paradise.net.nz>,
Nicholas Lee <nj.lee at kiwa.co.nz> wrote:
>
>I was wondering about a small detail in setting up an unpublished dns
>primary.
>
>In the SOA record:
>
>@   IN SOA ns.domain  nic.domain (...)
>
>Should the ns.domain entry be the published primary nameserver or the server
>(unpublished primary) that the domain zone file is served from.

Unless you're doing Dynamic DNS Updating, nothing cares about the
nameserver in the SOA record.  If you are, it should be the unpublished
primary, since that's where you want dynamic updates sent, right?

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