In computer networking, a zone file is a database element of the domain name system (DNS) originally used by the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software package and other DNS server software.
In computer networking, a zone file is a database element of the domain name system (DNS), the format is defined in RFC 1034 section 3. It was originally used by the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software package, but has been widely adopted by other DNS server software.