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Peplink Balance Series

14.5.2 SOA Records

Click on the

icon to choose whether to use the pre-defined Default SOA Record and NS Records. If

the option Use Default SOA and NS Records is selected, any changes made in the Default SOA / NS

Records will be applied to this domain automatically. Otherwise, select the option Customize SOA

Record for this domain and you can customize this domain's SOA and NS records.

This table displays the current SOA record. When the option Customize SOA Record for this domain is

selected, you can click the link Click here to define SOA record to create or click on the Name Server

field to edit the SOA record.

In the SOA record, you have to fill out the fields Name Server, Name Server IP Address (optional), Email,

Refresh, Retry, Expire, Min Time, and TTL.

Default values are set for SOA and NS records,

 Name Server IP Address (optional): This is the IP address of the authoritative name server. If

the Balance is the authoritative name server of the domain, this field's value should be the WAN

connection's name server IP address that is registered in the DNS registrar. If this field is

entered, a corresponding A record for the name server will be created automatically. If it is left

blank, the A record for the name server must be created manually.

 E-mail: Defines the E-mail address of the person responsible for this zone. Note: Format should

be mailbox-name.domain.com, e.g. hostmaster.example.com

 Refresh: Indicates the length of time (in seconds) when the slave will try to refresh the zone from

the master.

 Retry: Defines the duration (in seconds) between retries if the slave (secondary) fails to contact

the master when refresh (above) has expired.

 Expire: Indicates the time (in seconds) when the zone data is no longer authoritative. This

options applies to Slaves DNS servers only.

 Min Time: Is the negative caching time which defines the time (in seconds) after an error record

is cached

 TTL (Time-to-Live): Defines the duration (in seconds) that the record may be cached