Colm Buckley wrote (lots of sense as usual):
> This indicates that the zone "linux.ie" has a primary name server on
> "lugh.tuatha.org", that its administrator is "admin at linux.ie" (the dot
> is there instead of the @ for historical reasons), that the serial
> number of the zone file is 2000010701 (convention is that the serial
It should of course be pointed out the convention of including the date
in the SOA record varies considerably and I don't think is actually
mentioned in any RFC's. (It is however discussed in the DNS + BIND book
which is nearly as authorative :)
Unfortunately a lot of DNS administrators don't follow the guidelines
for the administrator e-mail address, but it is a good place to start if
you need to contact a zone administrator.
> number shows the date of last update), that the secondary name servers
> will check the primary for updates every 12 hours, that the secondaries
BIND 8 has a nifty feature whereby the master server will notify the
slave servers when it updates a zone so that the slave can pull a new
copy straight away rather than waiting for its checking period to
timeout.
T.
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