Naming a DNS Server

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Apr 10 17:29:07 UTC 2002


In article <a91sja$9ds at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Brian Guild  <Brian at body1.com> wrote:
>Guys,
>
>I am totally confused.  I have set up my own DNS server successfully.  But,
>when I go to a registrar and try to assign this DNS server to a particular
>domain name by its IP number, it will not allow me to do so stating I must
>enter the FQDN.
>
>My question: how does one "name a name server" without having dependency on
>another name server.  Do you do it through Verisign or Internic...or what?

You do it through the same registrar you use to register the domain.  There
should be a form to register a hostname, which you must do first.  Once
you've registered the host, you can then refer to it in domain
registrations.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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