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Using an Unpublished Primary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
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