Properties

The Domains - Properties section displays an overview of various details for your Domain.

• General Properties – Displays the basic details for the current domain.

• Edit SOA Record Details – A Start of Authority (SOA) Record specifies the authoritative name server for the domain. This section displays:

• The primary contact email address of the domain administrator,

• The domain serial number,

• The various (configured and/or default) rate values for the SOA Record.

• Name Server – Displays the current Name Servers for the account, along with any possible alerts for the name servers.

• Aliased Domains – Displays any alias domains associated to the current domain.

 

 

General Properties

The General Properties section displays the activity for your account.

• Zone Type – The type of zone (Primary, Secondary, or Alias).

• Last Modified – The date and time a change was last made to the Domain.

• Resource Record Count – The total count of Resource Records in the Domain.

• Account Name – The Account Name that the domain belongs to.

Edit SOA Record Details

You can click the Edit button to update the SOA Record details for your domain.

• Primary Nameserver - The nameserver that has the domain's authoritative data.

• Zone contact E-mail - The domain administrator's email address.

• Serial - By default, displayed as yyyymmddx, where yyyymmdd is the date of the domain's creation, and "x" is the version number of the data, which is automatically incremented whenever the domain data changes.

• TTL - Defines the "Time to Live" (amount of) time, in seconds, that any nameserver or resolver may cache the record.

• Refresh - The amount of time, in seconds, that secondary nameservers should check for updated domain data. Pertains only to secondary nameservers that obtain data from the primary nameserver.

• Expire - The amount of time, in seconds, a secondary nameserver attempts to obtain data from the primary nameserver. After this time passes, the secondary nameserver expires its data and no longer hands out answers for the domain. Pertains only to secondary nameservers that obtain data from the primary nameserver. Note: The Expire value should be much greater than the Refresh and Retry values. Otherwise, your secondary servers may expire the data before they can upload new data.

• Min Cache - Defines the amount of time, in seconds, that any nameserver or resolver should cache a negative response.

• Retry - The amount of time, in seconds, that secondary nameservers should attempt to contact the primary nameserver if the Refresh time as passed. Pertains only to secondary nameservers that obtain data from the primary nameserver.

 

Secondary Domain Properties

The Secondary Domain Properties section will display slightly different options and details. The key difference will be the Force Zone Transfer and Promote to Primary options.

 

 

• Force Zone Transfer - Clicking this button will automatically start a transfer of the zone / domain details from your configured Primary Name Server. If the transfer fails, the Backup Primary NameServer will be initiated.

• Promote to Primary - Promote the current Domain to a Primary Domain on the UltraDNS Managed Services portal.

The Transfer Status will display either the Forced Zone Transfer, or the configured Zone Transfer for the domain. If the Transfer fails, the Status Details will provide a brief explanation for the failure.

Edit Secondary Domain Configuration

When editing a Secondary Domain's details, you will the option to select the checkbox for Use TSIG Key. Additionally, you can use the Auto-Generate Key option to use a system generated key, if you don't already have a unique TSIG key.

• Primary Name Server

• 1st Backup Primary NS

• 2nd Backup Primary NS

• Notification Email

• Change Comment

Make sure to click Save when you are finished making your changes.

 

 

Name Server

The Name Server information is updated every seven calendar days for your account, and displays the two default Name Server records that are created along with any additional Name Server records you have created. The “Actual” status of the records is displayed as well.

Aliased Domains

The Aliased Domains section will display any aliased domains that you may have on the UI.