.TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread nudgemac
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic I've just discovered that the TLD where I've registered my domain requires a minimum of 2 nameservers for any subdomain, which is very sensible but I happen to have a special case on my hands. So I'd like to register a new domain elsewhere where they will all

Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 12/12/2011 15:19, nudge...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Sorry if this is slightly off-topic > > I've just discovered that the TLD where I've registered my domain requires a > minimum of 2 nameservers > for any subdomain, which is very sensible but I happen to have a special case > on my hands. > So

RE: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Or you could simply put a virtual IP address on the same name server (and any NATting required) and put it in as your second at the registrar. That is to say the Registrar would see the same name server with two different names and IPs so wouldn't know it was the same name server. -Orig

Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 12 2011, Anand Buddhdev wrote: I suspect that most, if not all registries will require you to provide at least 2 name servers, because this is highly recommended in one of the RFCs (forget which one now). This seems to go right back to RFC 882 (November 1983): | The domain must provide

Fwd: Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread nudgemac
Thanks all. Chris, Anand that's very useful to know, sorry Jeff and Philippe, your interesting suggestions wont work in this case. If I attack the problem from the other way down instead, the fact my current registra doesn't allow me to add PTR or DNAME records to my top level domain limits what e

Re: Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:20 AM, wrote: > Thanks all. Chris, Anand that's very useful to know, sorry Jeff and Philippe, > your interesting suggestions wont work in this case. > > If I attack the problem from the other way down instead, the fact my current > registra doesn't allow me to add PTR or