=>> SOA The address in this field must be a valid e-mail address to the =>> administrator for the DNS. =>> It's also good practise to have role address instead of =>> personal, ie root.. admin.. hostmaster.. =>> (when domain-administrator is leaving your company, you =>> only change the alias for role address). = =I would add: "The 'at' ('@') sign of the email address should be =replaced by a dot, e.g. instead of <hostmaster@foo.bar.com>, the =address should be specified as hostmaster.foo.bar.com, as given =in the following example." With regard to the '@' sign hack, I'd rather use 'must' than 'should' :-) On top of that, I suggest to clearly describe the requirement to quote any "leading" dot(s) that are *not* supposed to be converted to an '@' character. Like in wilfried\.woeber.univie.ac.at ! Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Vienna University : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : RIPE-DB (&NIC) Handle: WW144 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : PGP public key ID 0xF0ACB369 --------------------------------------------------------------------------