Technical Library

Domain Name System

Introduction

Integration

zone            IN      SOA     origin  contact (
                        serial
                        refresh
                        retry
                        expire
                        minimum )
host            IN      NS      server 
host            IN      A       host IP
host            IN      MX      preference host name
host2           IN      CNAME   host
host2           IN      HINFO   hardware/software information
host3           IN      A       host IP
host3           IN      TXT     any string

After having added the values to your start of authority record, you can add other records to your hosts file.

It is very important that there are values in the SOA record and NS records beneath it. Without those two pieces, there can be many errors.