Getting started

[Barry Margolin]

   From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov>
   Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:52:59 -0400 (EDT)

   > In article <199906072131.RAA11024 at fw1.osis.gov>,
   > Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
   > >There's also a host template.  You can register the hosts first, then
   > >register the domain with the hosts you had registered as the name
   > >servers.  See <URL: ftp://networksolutions.com/template/host-template.txt>.
   > 
   > No, you don't.  If you're registering a new domain, you provide the host
   > info in the Domain template, you don't send in a separate Host template.
   > You only need to use the Host template if you're changing the address of an
   > existing host.

   It may work differently in different domains, then.  The above is the
   information I got from the corresponding form at the .mil NIC.  And,
   yes, I hadn't remembered the host template from non-.mil activity; but
   I figured things were changing.

   Sorry, I should have added that caveat.

I was only referring to domains registered at internic.net, now
networksolutions.com (i.e. .com, .org, .net, and .edu domains).  That
seemed to be what the original poster was asking about.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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