Position of SOA in master file (was: Re: about resolving on a child zone)

[Chris Thompson]

On Apr 14 2009, Chris Buxton wrote:

>No, I didn't mean positionally within the zone file. Record order is  
>mostly irrelevant in zone files (but the SOA record must be first).

No, it need not be first.

It's *conventional* to put it first.

It's only *necessary* if you (a) have no $TTL directive (b) have no explicit
TTL on the first RR in the master file. Or at least, with the various BIND
backwards-compatibility features, that's the case.

-- 
Chris Thompson
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