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Understanding the SOA and NS for a domain

Understanding the SOA and NS for a domain

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Understanding the SOA and NS for a domain

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- [Voiceover] Start of Authority and the Name Server Resource Record are frequently talked about close together with each other because they both effect the ability to find the name server for a domain. And also, whether or not that domain is authoritative for the information it's carrying so, let's about each of those. We've talked about our hierarchy before. The where of where this sits is right in here within the domain that we're talking about. And, of course, you guessed it, we're gonna go straight into that zone file. And inside of the zone file, we're going to talk about the two records that we're talking about now. The SOA and the NS, or name server. Start of Authority, or Name Server Records. And we're gonna start with the SOA. All right, so, this is our example SOA from our landonhotels.com domain. And here you can see, we've got things separated out. And we can talk about each of things is right here. So, the first landonhotels.com. First of all that dot at the end of.com…

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