hi ya
-- i do not think one should have to buy a domain from
someone else...especially if it costs um $35/yr on the high side
-- some domains are going for $10M now days.....way out of line ????
but guess people think there is value in things like
cars.com, tv.com, korea.com, etc..etc..
-- to register your domains.... just have 2 DNS servers....
- your own static ip#.... hopefully you have one
- many many people outthere provide free secondary DNS
-- if you have a dialup modem connection...than you'd need to
ask someone else to host it for you...
- networksolutions is a holding place....
- others in the market started the idea....to charge people
extra for it......for hosting your domain name...
-- if you have a static ip#.... your DNS problem is trivial to solve...
- Primary DNS is your static ip# of your dsl line say at home...
- Secondary DNS is anybody_you talked to first...
granitecanyon.com, dyndns.com, etc...etc..etc...
....search the web...
....
...or gimma private email and i'll play secondary...
,,,just a one line item in my dns fils...
have fun
alvin
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote:
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> > 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.
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> As someone once said, "There are no stupid questions".
>
> > I want to buy a domain name,
>
> You can't buy it; you "rent" it but NSI owns it and can do what they want
> with it :(
>
> > 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?
>
> Add the domain to bind like you normally would. It doesn't matter which
> order you do it in (register with NSI vs setup DNS); just as long as your
> primary DNS server is correctly configured and the root servers have been
> set to send requests for your domain to your name server (NSI does that
> part when you register with them) everything will work out fine.
>
> It's also generally considered to be a good idea to add a secondary name
> server (with a slave zone, to use bind 8.x terminology) for backup
> purposes.
>
> > 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*
>
> It depends on their network infrastructure, particularly firewalls/proxy
> servers. As long as any host in the world can connect to port 53 (tcp and
> udp) on your primary DNS server, they shouldn't need to do a thing.
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