DNS/DHCP Management Console

Zones

A zone is a database that contains domain names and subdomain information for a specified domain. To access zone property pages, select a zone from the DNS service tab.

Attributes. Use this tab to specify a zone type as Primary, Secondary, or Forward and to assign servers that manage this zone. 

Forwarding List. Use this tab to specify the IP addresses of DNS servers to which queries are forwarded from this zone, when it is unable to resolve queries from an authoritative data or cache. Unresolved queries are sent to these servers before they are sent to root servers. This field is related to Forward option.

You can configure a forwarding list as an Empty Forwarder or IP Addresses:

Zone Out Filter. Use this tab to add or delete IP addresses and networks that are authorized to do zone transfers for this zone.

SOA (Start of Authority) Information. Use this tab to make modifications to a zone's SOA record. It has the following fields:

Key List.

Available DNS Keys: Displays a list of DNS keys that are available in the eDirectory tree. These keys can be associated with the DNS server.
Selected DNS Keys:
Displays a list of DNS Keys that are associated with the DNS server.

NOTE: To add or remove multiple keys, use the Ctrl key to select the keys. Then click Add or Remove appropriately.

Control Lists. Use this tab to specify the access control information of this zone.
Click Add to add a value to this list. To delete an item, select the item to be deleted and click Delete.

Note: Allow Update with keys and Update Policy options are supported for Linux DNS only.

Advanced. Use this tab to specify additional zone options.

Note: For the zone type Forward; Attributes, Forwarding List, and Advanced tabs only can be configured.


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