Primary server in SOA (was Re: What does this Mean????)

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Don Stokes <don at daedalus.co.nz> wrote:

> phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
>>Assuming NS.eziekiel.com. is your master the SOA should read :
>>@               IN      SOA   NS.eziekiel.com.  hostmaster.eziekiel.com. (

> In my experience, the only thing that cares about the primary nameserver
> field in the SOA is DNS updates.  If not accepting updates, I've been
> inclined to do things like:

> ; ORIGIN is domain.example.
> @         SOA    loopback.domain.example. hostmaster.domain.example ...
>           ...
> loopback  A      127.0.0.1

> This deals with the annoying habit of Microsoft clients that attempt to
> update the DNS when they come up.  You just wouldn't believe how much
> bogus update traffic the registered primary of a TLD gets without that
> trick.

> There's an unusually warm place in Hell reserved for the Microsoftie that
> made that decision to make "update DNS" the default.

> Is there anything else that relies on the primary field of the SOA?

No, (unless you consider som particularly naste DNS-test software  as "using" ) 

"zonecheck" will give a warning, not an error( at least not in my copy).


> -- don


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