SOA records

[Kay Abendroth]

Hello,

SOA means start of authority and therefore has to point to the primary 
DNS server for that zone! This has to be a valid nameserver of course.


Greetings.
Kay



Dibyendu Rakshit (Dib) wrote:
> BIND users,
> Does SOA need to point to a primary name server? Does it need to point to a 
> existing name server at all?
> 
> What is the relevance of SOA when NS records are present?
> 
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Dib
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