public nameserver / private nameserver

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Dec 10 22:13:09 UTC 2003


Helmut Muster wrote:

>Hallo,
>
>who knows the difference between a public und a private nameserver?
>
>I wanted to register my own nameserver "kcom.at" at the registrar of
>the domain of a customer of us.
>
>But I've got the following message:
>Hostname entered is not authorized
>
>According the information of the registrar our nameserver is private
>an not public.
>How can I get a public nameserver and/or an authorized nameserver?
>
The only thing that comes immediately to mind is that the nameserver is 
in a private (RFC 1918) address range, i.e. in 10/8, 172.16/12 or 
192.168/16.

                                                                         
                                    -Kevin




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