Check on Zone definition

[shoonyathaa]

"Zone: A part of the DNS database
This would be www.amazon.com"

My take is Zone is a logical construct which is part of the Domain Name System.
"amazon.com" is the Zone and "www.amazon.com" is a record/recordset which
is hosted in the zonefile. Let me know if this makes sense.

[alozano-77]

Thanks @shoonyathaa, I don't know much about DNS other than this course so if you want to provide adjustments with a pull request I can merge it in.

[sbmelvin]

A DNS zone is a portion of the DNS namespace that is managed by a specific organization or administrator. All the information about a zone is stored in a plain text file called a zone file. This file is stored on the zone's nameserver(s) and contains an actual representation of the zone and contains all the records for every domain within the zone.

A DNS zone refers to a certain portion or administrative space within the global Domain Name System (DNS). Each DNS zone represents a boundary of authority subject to management by certain entities. The total of all DNS zones, which are organized in a hierarchical tree-like order of cascading lower-level domains, form the DNS namespace. -- NTCHosting

The authority over each DNS zone is delegated to a legal entity or organization (i.e. a country-code top-level domain registry) or a company/individual registered to use a certain sub-domain within the system. Depending on the administrative rights delegated to a certain entity, DNS zones may consist of only one domain, or of many domains and sub-domains. Further authority over a sub-space could be delegated to other parties, if necessary. -- NTCHosting

A hosted zone is an Amazon Route 53 concept. A hosted zone is analogous to a traditional DNS zone file; it represents a collection of records that can be managed together, belonging to a single parent domain name. All resource record sets within a hosted zone must have the hosted zone’s domain name as a suffix. For example, the amazon.com hosted zone may contain records named www.amazon.com, and www.aws.amazon.com, but not a record named www.amazon.ca. You can use the Route 53 Management Console or API to create, inspect, modify, and delete hosted zones. -- Amazon

[shoonyathaa]

Sorry for the late reply. Just saw your email and it has been long time since I commented! Happy to contribute where required.

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