[louischatriot]

That's true, I should have been clearer in my introduction: this really is a guide for beginners. The goal here was to show a simple zone file example and go through it, so that someone who never set up a DNS could do it in 10 minutes. That's why it is nowhere as complete as Google's description :)

[X-Istence]

Except someone who has never done it before probably shouldn't be in the position to edit zone files themselves... They should most likely use their registrars DNS servers or the DNS servers for their host, or if they want to get fancy one of the DNS providers out there.

Once you get to the point that you have outgrown the solutions out there, or you want to do something fancy such as create records on the fly then you can start looking into doing your own DNS hosting.

[louischatriot]

I agree with you that if you want to be a full-fledged programmer you will need to understand this topic beyond this simple example, but at the time I really could have used it as a starting point.