DNS needed to register domain...

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Apr 25 18:26:40 UTC 2000


In article <bLkN4.508$iU2.17529 at news.uswest.net>,
Scott <sadams4 at NOSPAMuswest.net> wrote:
>How does the secondary DNS work?  Does that mean that I have to have my Web
>sites on their server as well, because I'd like to get away from using any
>company other than the one I use for my DSL connection.  Would I be able to
>set up a secondary nameserver if I leased another IP address from my ISP?
>Can both nameservers point to the same computer?  Sorry for all the
>questions, but this is all new to me.

Secondary DNS is a backup nameserver.  It automatically gets the contents
of your domain from your server.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the
location of your webserver; Granite Canyon provides no services other than
free DNS service, they don't do web hosting.

You could do it on one machine by configuring multiple IP addresses on it.
However, I wouldn't recommend that.  The whole point of secondary DNS is to
provide fault tolerance -- if your machine or DSL connection goes down,
there should still be a nameserver that can answer for your domain.

BTW, before you even think of hosting your own DNS, run out and buy the
O'Reilly DNS & BIND book.  It will answer all your basic questions about
DNS; please don't post questions here unless you've already tried to answer
them by looking in the book.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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