[TriLUG] DNS makes my headhurt..

[Jeff Groves]

If it's anything like tucows based registration, he needs the IP address 
of the machine running named that is the master for his domain (AKA ns1) .
Who provides your DNS service?  Have you ever considered running your 
own named?

Jeff G.

Brian Henning wrote:

>Would that I could..  Not likely to happen, though.
>Any other suggestions?
>~B
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brandon Newport" <bnewport at appws.com>
>To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] DNS makes my headhurt..
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>> <>It is probably time to ask him for the login and password so you 
>> can set it up.
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>>:)
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>>-brandon
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>>Brian Henning (brian at strutmasters.com) wrote:
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>>>Ok, remember how I was setting up some named virtual hosts for a
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>nonprofit?
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>>>Now I'm working with the fellow that holds the registration of the
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>domain
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>>>name.  I told him to alias his domain to strutmasters.net; that way, as
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>long
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>>>as we keep our domain name registration up-to-date, his is automatically
>>>up-to-date as well.  He replied and said:
>>>"All I need is the name servers, NS1 and NS2 are they both
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>strutmasters.net
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>>>this is the only way that it can be done at register" [sic]
>>>Which one of us is confused?  I have very little domain registration
>>>experience, but the times I've ever registered any domain, it's been
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>tell
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>>>the people the name and the IP and they take care of it; I've never been
>>>asked about name servers.  I thought name servers were the realm of the
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>dns
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>>>provider?
>>>So if I'm the confused one here, what's the right answer to his
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>question?
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>>>"Yes"?
>>>If he's the confused one, what do I tell him to clear things up?
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>>>Thanks y'all,
>>>~Brian
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>>>Brian A. Henning
>>>Strutmasters.com
>>>866.597.2397
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