You guys seem to know everything... so I thought I'd ask my stupid question here even though it's not actually a debian question. I hope you don't mind.
I want to buy a domain name, and use one of my debian boxen as the primary DNS server for it. I'm already running a caching-only DNS server, and I've read about how to add a domain to bind. However, it seems like there's a catch-22 involved in the registration process. NSI wants me to already have a name server set up for the domain before I buy it. However, I thought I would have to own a domain before I added it to my name server. So how does one do this? Also, I'm within a university network. Do you think the university net admins would have to do anything for me to get this set up? I guess I don't fully understand the system. *sigh* Thanks for your help, Samuel Hathaway Student Consultant Academic Technology Services University of Rochester
