$ORIGIN example.com. ; designates the start of this zone file in the namespace $TTL 1h ; default expiration time of all resource records without their own TTL value ; if a name ends in a . its a fqdn if not its relative ; name (ttl) record_class record_type record_data example.com. IN SOA ns1.example.com. ( dnsadmin.example.com ; email 2020022310 ; serial 86400 ; refresh period - 1d 7200 ; retry period - 2h 2419200 ; expire time - 4w 1800 ; minimum ttl - 30m ) example.com. IN NS ns1 ; ns1.example.com - nameserver for example.com example.com. IN NS ns2 ; ns2.example.com - backup nameserver for example.com example.com. IN MX 10 mail.example.com. ; mail.example.com - mail exchange for example.com ns1 IN A 10.2.3.4 ; IPv4 address for ns1.example.com ns2 IN A 10.2.3.5 mail IN A 10.2.3.4 ; start dynnsd myhost 5m IN A 10.0.3.23 otherhost 5m IN A 10.0.3.23 home 5m IN A 10.0.3.23 ; end dynnsd