easyDNS Tutorials - Secondary DNS

Table of Contents

For those who understand the basics of secondary DNS and just have a question about a specific part of it, or have been through this tutorial before and are coming back for reference, the following index can be used to skip directly to the section you are interested in.
Introduction
	Introduction
	Introduction 2
	A note about the Member Section
	How this tutorial is structured
Section One - The WHOIS record
	Looking Up Domains
	Primary and Secondary Nameservers
	How Authoritative Nameservers Communicate
	SOA Settings
	SOA Settings 2
	Using an Unpublished Primary
Section Two - How to set up Secondary DNS through easyDNS
	Adding the Domain to our System
	Managing Secondary DNS
	Adding the IP Address for the Primary Nameserver
	Records on the Primary Nameserver
	Entering the ACL
	Permissions and Firewall Concerns
	The Show Cache Link
	Forcing a Reload
	Forcing a Reload 2
	Testing Zone Transfers
	Error Messages from Testing
	Common Zone File Errors
	Secondary DNS Set Up Successfully
	Nameserver Delegation
	Feedback

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