registering a dns server with register.com

[Barry Margolin]

In article <84ec74$98c$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>,
Alex Miller <newsgroupreply at bannerclub.com> wrote:
>I have a domain registered with register.com
>
>It's called acmeconscience.org
>
>I have created a canonical name acme.acmeconscinence.org
>and an alias ns1.acmeconcscience.org
>
>I would LIKE to specify ns1.acmeconscience.org as an
>authoritative name server.

NS records are supposed to point to A records, not CNAME records.

>I am using Suse Linux 6.2 and Bind is version 8
>
>Is there a named.conf directive that identifies the nameserver?

If it's "type master", the local machine is the nameserver.  If it's "type
slave", the "masters { ... };" statement identifies the master nameservers
by IP address.

>My computers host.domainame is the canonical acme.acmeconscience.org
>
>But more in keeping with the subject of this message,
>can I register ns1.acmeconscience.org

If you do this, the root servers will contain a glue A record for this
name, but your nameserver will claim that it's a CNAME record.
Inconsistencies like this are a common cause of problems.

>I know that network solutions uses a "host form" but I
>can't find any such equivalent thing in register.com

I'm not familiar with the details of their service, so I can't answer
this.  Why don't you ask them (I presume you chose to use register.com over
Network Solutions because of NSI's poor customer support, so why not take
advantage of them?).

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