Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:52:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Question (quite a bit OT) Message-ID: <3F20D3C3.C3F0927F@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0307240820450.14484-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Derik Wilson wrote: > > If anyone can let me know what is needed to register a DNS I would > > appreciate that info. I have my apache set up but I am not sure how to > > register a named server so that I can point a domain name at it. I can't > > point the domain name at an IP with my current registrar, only named > > servers. Thanks > > Sense you have a web server setup I'll assume you have a static IP for > that server. > > So use BIND (which is installed by default) with FreeBSD or install > another DNS server from the ports collection (such as net/maradns). Heh. There is probably a market for a DNS that will lie about it's timeouts when requests come from the TLD -- and *only* from the TLD. 8-) 8-). The reason they care, BTW, is the want to control the load on their root servers, and they do that by administratively controlling how long the records on the servers to which their root server has delegated autority's responses are normally cached for on intermediate DNS caching servers, such as those at the NSP/ISP boundary (e.g. at ISP's or in the "last hop" in DSLM's, etc.). The PITA with this approach is that it means switching providers will mean you are "off the air", as far as people who have a DNS caching server with a cached entry with a long TTL between them and the root are concerned. DNS was actually intened to have the TTL drastically reduced in these situations, so they are actually checking on something that should be small exactly while they are checking it. 8-(. -- Terry
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