Dns Zone Object; Dns Resource Record Set Object; Dns Resource Records - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

DNS Zone Object

DNS Resource Record Set Object

DNS Resource Records

The DNS Zone object is a container object that contains all the data for a single
DNS zone. A Zone object is the first level of the DNS zone description. A
Zone object can be contained under an Organization (O), Organizational Unit
(OU), a Country (C), or a Locality (L).
Multiple DNS domains can be represented within eDirectory by using
separate, independent DNS Zone objects. A network administrator can
support multiple DNS domains on a single NetWare server by creating
multiple DNS Zone objects and assigning the server to serve those zones.
The DNS Zone object contains data that correlates to a DNS Start of Authority
(SOA) resource record (RR), a member list of all eDirectory-based DNS
servers that serve the zone, and Dynamic DNS (DDNS) server information.
The DNS name space hierarchy is not represented within the eDirectory
hierarchy. A zone and its child zone might appear as peers within the
eDirectory hierarchy, even though they have a parent-child relationship within
the DNS hierarchy.
The DNS Resource Record Set (RRSet) object is an eDirectory leaf object
contained within a DNS Zone object. An RRSet object represents an
individual domain name within a DNS zone. Its required attributes are a DNS
domain name, a DNS address class, and a Time-to-Live (TTL) record.
Each domain name within a DNS zone object has an RRSet object. Each
RRSet object has one or more resource records beneath it containing
additional information about the domain, including a description of the object
and version information.
A DNS resource record (RR) is an attribute of an RRSet that contains the
resource records type and data of a single RR. RRs are configured beneath
their respective RRSet objects. Resource records describe their associated
RRset object.
The most common resource records are Address (A) records, which map a
domain name to an IP address, and Pointer (PTR) records, which map an IP
address to a domain name within an IN-ADDR.ARPA zone.
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