Is godaddy wrong in disallowing using my domain as an NS server for itself?

[Chris Buxton]

There's no need to spend an extra IP address on the task. You can run  
your DNS service on the same machine, at the same address, as you were  
already planning to do. Just use a different name. For example, your  
zone file might have these records:

@	NS	ns1
	MX	10	mx1
	A	192.0.2.1
mx1	A	192.0.2.1
ns1	A	192.0.2.1
www	A	192.0.2.1

The only caveat is that you should have at least two (or even more)  
name servers. So there should be more than just the one NS record.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice

On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Giuliano Gavazzi <dev-isc.org at humph.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On 14 Apr, 2008, at 07:31 , Andris Kalnozols wrote:
>>
>>> If you are not a customer of MarkMonitor, perhaps someone
>>> else on this list would know how to get a name server
>>> registered with InterNIC.
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK it is the registrar under which a domain is registered who  
>> can ask
>> for the glue records for a nameserver, under that same domain, to be
>> created. So to have the ns at teknot.us registered you have to ask  
>> godaddy.
>> Personally I would not the domain name as an NS record though.
>>
>> Giuliano
>
>
> Yeah I was expecting to be able to set it up through the godaddy
> control panel since they are the ones with access.  So you are saying
> it's legitimate, but not something you would do?  I'm not expecting to
> have enough traffic to need dedicated machines for DNS in the
> foreseeable future, so having extra hostnames, and IP address for them
> seems like a waste.  If it's legitimate to do so I would rather
> pressure godaddy to change their control panel, or move to a different
> registrar than get IP addresses.
>
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