newbie DNS question

[Michael Voight]

You register the addresses of the nameservers with InterNic

You might want to look up the meaning of "glue records"

Michael

Steve Hodgson wrote:
> 
> I want to run DNS on my linux box so that I don't have to pay a provider
> to host my domain.  This may seem like a dumb question, but when you
> register your domain with the InterNIC, do you enter the IP addresses of
> the DNS servers or just the host name?  If you just enter the host name,
> then why wouldn't the following situation be a problem:
> 
> Domain: mysite.com
> Primary NS: ns1.mysite.com
> Secondary NS: ns2.mysite.com
> 
> Now, when someone tries to resolve mysite.com, it will look to
> ns1.mysite.com.  But in order to reslove ns1.mysite.com it would look to
> ns1.mysite.com.  It's seems like a never-ending loop to me.  I'm I just
> confused or what?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve