30.11. Editing Zone Defaults

If you add lots of zones that contain similar records, then it can be a lot of work to add them manually after creating each one. For example, in a web hosting company all of your domains might contain a www Address record for the IP address of your web server and an Mail Server record that directs mail to a central server. Fortunately, Webmin allows you to create a list of records that get added to all new domains, called a zone template.

A template consists of one or more records, each of which has a name, type and value. For Address records, the value can be an option which indicates that it can be entered by the user at zone creation time. This is useful if one of the records (such as www) in the new domains does ...

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