Hi Matthew: On Tue 7/11/17 15:24 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 2017/07/11 14:57, b...@zq3q.org wrote: > > > I have several linux VMs, that are under used, so I want to use them > > for the nameservers for 'mynew.org'. **Neither are in 'mynew.org'; > > is that going to work?** > > Yes, that will work. There is no requirement for any of the NSes for > a zone to be part of that zone or, conversely, not part of that zone.
This seems imp: > Although if any of the NSes are in the zone, there should be glue > records added at the level above. As I wrote to Niall (msg dated 11 Jul 2017 15:04:32 -0500) , I **do not** have a NS record for each of my two nameservers, in the domain zone that the respective nameserver itself is in. That is a mistake, I need to fix, right? > > namecheap support seems to suggest that the personal DNS authorative > > nameservers for 'mynew.org', must be in 'mynew.org', as in > > > > ns1.mynew.org ns2.mynew.org > > This is not a requirement from the DNS side. It's normal for > providers to offer this -- vanity name servers are usually a selling > point. OK. Thanks for that term "vanity name servers". > Even so, if you can make ns1.mynew.org and ns2.mynew.org resolve to > the A or AAAA addresses of your VMs, you should be good to go. named > is going to work the same irrespective of whatever it thinks the > hostname of your VM is, and that can be different to the name users > look up in the DNS. > > Failing that, there are any number of other providers that will let > you register a domain, and the vast majority of those certainly will > let you specify your own nameservers. If you have a specific registrar in mind with good support pls let me know. -- thanks/regards, Tom _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
