Master DNS in SOA not found?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cchsob$24st$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "DesignGuy" <dontbother at nowhere.com> wrote:

> "Jonathan de Boyne Pollard" <J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET> wrote in message
> news:ccf7dg$2i94$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> > D> Making changes to the file seems to have no effect as far as the
> > D> domain check reports go.
> >
> > What made you think that it would ?  The DNS data for your domain are
> > published to the world by content DNS servers owned and run by a DNS
> hosting
> > company (ThePlanet) that you are paying to do this.  Why do you think that
> > changing the DNS database content on your own entirely separate content
> DNS
> > server will have any effect at all on what data the rest of Internet
> > (including the organizations that provide the free DNS checking services
> that
> > you are using) sees ?
> 
> Then why is that file there if it serves no purpose?

You created it, so you tell us!

Basically, it's only being used by your local clients, it's not the 
version of the zone that the rest of the Internet uses.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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