how to make my DNS server visible to others

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94sjpp$226 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Sumit Mehrotra  <sumit at cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>Yes. You have to register the host on which DNS is running. Infact, I
>believe the registration process (at least with NSI :) requires you to
>have the host as part of the domain you want to host.

There is no such requirement.  Consider all the ISPs who host thousands of
domains?  Their nameservers aren't in all the domains they're hosting.

> But there is a cute
>workaround to this. 
>e.g if your  host is `host.somedomain.com' and the domains are
>domain1.com and domain2.com
>register the host info for each domain respectively as :
>
>host.domain1.com  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>host.domain2.com  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Since NSI's host registration requires the IP addresses to be unique, this
obviously wouldn't work.

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