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.
SUMMARY. The first resource record in any Domain Name System (DNS) Zone file should be a Start of Authority (SOA) resource record. The SOA resource record indicates that this DNS name server is the best source of information for the data within this DNS domain.