10. Zone generation

This chapter provides an overview of zone generation functionality in FRED.

FRED can generate zone files, which are compliant with RFC 1034, RFC 1035, RFC 2308, RFC 4027.

These zone files contain SOA, NS, A, AAAA and DS records, which are consistent with the data in the registry. The domain records are generated based on domain, nsset and keyset objects in the registry. FRED generates domains into the zone only if they are linked to a nsset. Domains can also be kept administratively out of the zone by statuses. DNSKEY records are immediately transformed into DS records and both A and AAAA records are only generated when GLUE records are required.

FRED itself only generates the text representation of zone file. The actual authoritative domain name service must be done through a DNS server such as KNOT or BIND. Although zone generator can execute additional scripts after zone file is generated in order to automate validation.