What I would use: @ SOA wa4phy.net. root.wa4phy.net. ( 2005122901 ; Serial, todays date + todays serial # 8H ; Refresh, seconds 2H ; retry, seconds 1W ; expire, seconds 1D ) ; minimum, seconds @ NS ns NS ns2 NS ns3 ns A 216.104.158.222 ns2 A 216.104.128.37 ns3 A 216.104.128.38 @ A 216.104.158.222 vortex A 216.104.158.222 @ MX 10 wa4phy.net. ;Primary Mail Exchanger MX 20 smtp7.bagger.usbn.net. ;Secondary MX www CNAME wa4phy.net. ftp CNAME wa4phy.net. 'IN' can be dropped - it's the default. Please note the lack of an entry for localhost, localhost. would need to go into a seperate zone file (for the localhost. domain) or leave it up to /etc/hosts to resolve localhost. Cheers, MaZe.