What is DNS
Name servers are responsible for converting Internet domain names to IP addresses. This is referred to as the Domain Name System (DNS).
Name servers hold and serve the records for a particular zone.
The most common Name servers on the Internet are (based on) bind9.
Default Nameservers, when you register or transfer a domain name to ArkHost, are pointed to the following servers:
- ns1.arkhost.com
- ns2.arkhost.com
The difference between domain and zone
Domain
The term domain describes the entire logical sequence of the name; a domain can also comprise one or several subordinate domains. The domain shop.your-company.com belongs to the domain your-company.com, which in turn belongs to the .com domain. Several name servers are associated with this domain structure.
Zone
The term zone designates an enclosed area in the domain structure, which is independently managed by a primary name server and which is managed without the help of any other name servers. A zone mostly comprises one domain only and does not contain any other zones. The name server manages a zone in the zone file. It includes information on the individual hosts or the name servers responsible for subordinate domains.
