
Configuring Inbound Access Rules
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BODi rS BD1000 User Manual
6 • Configuring Inbound Access & NAT Mappings
SOA Records
Click on the Pencil icon to choose whether to use the pre-defined Default SOA Record and NS Records. If the
option’s 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 SOA Record option to customize this domain's
SOA and NS records.
Figure 53. DNS > SOA Record
The table in the figure above 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 must fill out the fields for:
Name Server, Name Server IP Address (optional), Email,
Refresh, Retry, Expire, Min Time
, and
TTL
.
Default values are set for SOA and NS records.
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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.
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E-mail:
Defines the E-mail address of the person responsible for this zone. Note: Format should be mail-
box-name.domain.com, e.g. hostmaster.example.com
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Refresh:
Indicates the length of time (in seconds) when the slave will try to refresh the zone from the mas-
ter.
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Retry:
Defines the duration (in seconds) between retries if the slave (secondary) fails to contact the master
when refresh (above) has expired.
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Expire:
Indicates the time (in seconds) when the zone data is no longer authoritative. This option applies to
Slaves DNS servers only.
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Min Time:
Sets the negative caching time that defines the time (in seconds) after an error record is cached.
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TTL (Time-to-Live):
Defines the duration (in seconds) that the record may be cached.