USER MANUAL 
Peplink Balance Series 
 
15.3.5 SOARecords 
 
 
 
Click on the  icon to choose whether to use the pre-defined Default SOA Record and NS Records. If 
the option Use 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 option Customize SOA 
Record for this domain and you can customize this domain's SOA and NS records. 
 
 
 
This table 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 have to fill out the fields Name Server, Name Server IP Address (optional), Email, 
Refresh, Retry, Expire, Min Time, and TTL. 
Default values are set for SOA and NS records, 
  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.
 
  E-mail: Defines the E-mail address of the person responsible for this zone.  Note: Format should 
be mailbox-name.domain.com, e.g. hostmaster.example.com 
  Refresh: Indicates the length of time (in seconds) when the slave will try to refresh the zone from 
the master. 
  Retry: Defines the duration (in seconds)between retries if the slave (secondary) fails to contact 
the master when refresh (above) has expired.   
  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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