From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 1:31:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6FE037B411 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 01:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id A71AC16B24 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AD31B7501EA; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:41:21 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010820102710.04098518@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:31:46 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: DNS question... becoming authoritative... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Basically, now I have my NS entries pointed to my ISP provided hostname. My >question is, when I become authoritative This mean the parent NSīs for your zone will have your NS in their delegation records. >, is all I need to do is change my >ISP provided hostname to my own hostname? Hardly. You must register your hostname and ip (which will become the delegation record(s) and "glue" in the parent zone) with your registrar. > (Providing that I have correctly >setup the reverse DNS entries) Or are there any other things I need to do? see my page: http://bind8nt.meiway.com/publicDNS.cfm >Any suggestions would be appreciated. This will be the first time I have ran >a nameserver that is authoritative over itself. Have fun, DNS is some of the coolest stuff on Internet. Get the DNS & BIND book, 4th edition, by O'Reilly. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message