[olug] Network Name registration.

Jon thechunk at home.com
Fri Oct 5 15:15:03 UTC 2001


Thanks for the post.  It has helped me understand this better.  Do you use DSL from Alltel?

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:04:13AM -0700, Eric Penne wrote:
> Don't exclusively look at bind.  Search freshmeat.net for some other
> programs that do the same thing.  I use tinydns from the djbdns
> packages available at http://cr.yp.to (I love that domain name).
> 
> Here is my chronology of the events I did to register and serve up
> http://thepennes.net and http://zoucha.net
> 
> First I set up tinydns with my domain names and IPs on the first PC
> with IP 168.40.88.38.  I also did this on another PC at 168.40.88.36.  
> 
> Then I registered my names with network solutions.  When registering
> the names, I entered the 2 DNS servers with the information.  Withing
> 48 hours it all worked.
> 
> I can't do reverse lookup though because my IPs are handled by Alltel's
> DNS servers.
> 
> >From what I can tell when the program queries an name, it starts with
> .net .com or .org and asks the approriate root servers of .net or .com
> or .org for the address.  The root servers look at the second part, in
> my case thepennes or zoucha and tell the program to query a different
> (non-root) server that you entered for your domain name registration. 
> In my case it sends thepennes.net queries to 168.40.88.38 or .36 and
> asks for the IP of that domain name.  My local server looks at the
> third part of the name (www. dns1. or webserver.) and then sends back
> the appropriate IP address.  That way www. can have a different IP than
> dns1. This is the way I understand it and so far it works.  I don't
> know anything about AXFR or CNAME.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
>   
> --- Jon <thechunk at home.com> wrote:
> > Could anyone give some details / overview / howto / presentation /
> > anything on the details of internic name registration?  The parts
> > that I am most interested in is DNS server setup.  How do you
> > configure a bind server to serve up a domain.  
> > 
> > -Jon W
> > 
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