Oh, the games people play now. Every night and every day now. Never meaning what they say now. Never saying what they mean. And they wile away the hours. In their ivory towers. Till they're covered up with flowers.
ZoneCheck performs several tests on your DNS zone to ensure that it is correctly configured, and can be safely delegated. The Zone name must be either a Domain name, in-addr.arpa zone, or ip6.arpa zone name.
A DNS server that has complete information for part of the DNS name space is said to be the authority for that part of the name space. This authoritative information is organized into units called zones, which are the main units of replication in DNS. A zone contains one or more RRs for one or more related DNS domains.