Step 2: Decide on one or more domain names to be managed by ADNR

All resource records added to a name server have a domain suffix related to a name server zone. Typically, an enterprise's domain suffix is something like mycorp.com. Subdomains can exist under a domain, which have the subdomain name added before the parent's domain suffix, such as raleigh.mycorp.com and austin.mycorp.com.

Guideline: Because ADNR should be the only entity updating the zones it manages, ADNR should manage one or more unique sub-zones. For example, if your enterprise has a domain name of mycorp.com, ADNR can be configured to manage resources in a domain called mvsplex.mycorp.com.

The domain suffix of the resource records that ADNR creates is determined by the domain_suffix keyword of the zone keyword of the dns statement in the ADNR configuration file.