30.3. Creating a New Master Zone
A master zone is one for which your DNS server is the authoritative source of information. A single zone may be hosted by multiple servers, but only one is the master—all the rest are slaves. If you want to add a new master zone to your server's configuration, the steps to follow are:
1. | Decide on a name for the new zone, such as example.com or internal. If this is going to be Internet domain that will be visible to other everyone in the world, the domain name must not have been registered by anyone else yet. However, you cannot normally register it yourself until your DNS server has been set up to host it. |
2. | On the module's main page, click on the Create a new master zone link below the table of existing zones. ... |
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