Can any body explain this?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jan 10 20:48:27 UTC 2002


In article <a1kph4$l7o at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Husam  <h.jehadalwan at student.kun.nl> wrote:
>
>Hi friends, 
>First, I'm a newbie (and these are so few in the world;-)) trying to
>manage my doamin by myself. I have BIND 8-2 run on redhat 7.0.
> I configured named.conf to point to the zone file of firstdomain.com
>registered at netsol.
>Everything went ok. Telnet/FTP and www worked fine. Now the problem is
>the following. I registered a second domain at 6star.net. Subsequently,
>I replaced all the configurations for firstdomain.com in named.conf and
>the zone file with seconddomain.net. It does'nt work. When I do
>www.firstdoamin.com, I still get my homepage perfectly, but not with
>www.seconddomain.net. Why is that? Is this a matter of time untill the
>changes propagate through internet?

If you don't tell us what the domains are, we can't tell what's wrong.

>Second, I'm really confused with the zone file. I learned setting up bind
>from several bind tutorials and the book 'Linux Network Servers'. These
>explain very well how to do things and why, except for the SOA entry.
>As you know, the zone file begins with:
>mydomain.com.	IN	SOA		<NS.SOMTHNG.COM> 	hostmaster.mydomain.com
>
>The question is: What sould I put in <NS.SOMTHING.COM>?
>Is it mydomain.com? or the Primary DNS name server I got from my domain
>registrar? I have 3 primary and 3 secondary DNS name servers. The first I
>got it from my ISP, the second and the therd I got them from the domain
>registrars. So, If I have to use one of them, which one?

The terms "primary" and "secondary" are obsolete and confusing; the terms
that are used these days are "master" and "slave".  Normally there's just
one master server for a domain, and in your case it's your Linux box.  You
should put the name of that machine in <NS.SOMETHING.COM>.

But it's not really important, because almost nothing uses that field, and
almost certainly nothing you care about.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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