From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 09:00:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DEAD1065672 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF148FC1C for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KHR007MCYBYV5F1@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:59:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n388xuxB000462; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:59:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:59:56 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <953481EE-1A58-4852-BA23-8CB571939537@gid.co.uk> To: Bob Bishop Message-id: <49DC678C.7070403@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <49DB9CED.2030603@gmail.com> <953481EE-1A58-4852-BA23-8CB571939537@gid.co.uk> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090331) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:00:14 -0000 Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 7 Apr 2009, at 19:35, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> I have registered and pointed to my name server the following domains: >> >> istudentunion.com (.net and .org) [etc] > > Actually, the registrar only seems to have delegated istudentunion.net > > I'm not sure that using a CNAME for the server(s) is a good idea either. it is a huge ball of wax... they claimed they delegated everything but our nameservers are on .org and org is not delegated (according to dig)... what I did tempurarly was make the registers nameserver be the master but since it refuses to do a zone transfer all the internal IP;s and stuff are lost (as well as the MX since they do not offer MX [extra fee actually])... as to the CNAME issue I have used that for years (used to be a hosting ISP head sys/netadmin) and it is the recommended method in O'reilly... the only issue seems to be I have not done dns work in so long that I was used to bind 4 (but once I got used to the 8/9 semantics it seems to be working fine localy)