$TTL 24h @ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.lan. root.mydomain.lan. ( 2013011300 ; serial number 3h ; refresh time 30m ; retry time 7d ; expire time 3h ; negative caching ttl ) ; name servers - NS records @ IN NS ns1.mydomain.lan. @ IN NS ns2.mydomain.lan. ; name servers - A records @ IN A 192.168.0.3 ; this is the record needed to resolve apex domain = mydomain.lan ns1 IN A 192.168.0.1 ns2 IN A 192.168.0.2 host1 IN A 192.168.0.4 ; name servers - CNAME records cname1 IN CNAME host1