WEDOS DNS administration does not support the SOA type record, the system sets it automatically within the DNS server settings (NSSET).

In this article, you will learn:

• What is the type SOA record for
• How to set the SOA record
• Frequently asked questions

The Start Of Authority record (SOA) is a special record that must appear exactly once in each zone file. This is a kind of header that contains the following information:

• MNAME – Name of the primary DNS server for the zone
• RNAME – contact for zone file administrator (email address with a dot instead of the @ sign)
• SERIAL – zone serial number (number indicating the version of the zone file)
• REFRESH – number of seconds between serial number checks
• RETRY – number of seconds to retry looking for a serial number if the previous attempt failed
• EXPIRE – the number of seconds after which a zone whose serial number could not be found will expire (the secondary DNS server should remove it from its records)
• MINIMUM – Currently TTL for negative caching (the amount of time that caching DNS servers remember that a record does not exist)

WEDOS DNS administration does not support the SOA type record, the system sets it automatically within the DNS server settings (NSSET).

Question: Where can I find my domain’s SOA record value?
Answer: Use a diagnostic tool such as Google Dig (external).