From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 23 15:54:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13295 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13280 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA05493; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:24:22 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971124102421.04814@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:24:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Lee Johnston Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with regestring domain name References: <3478BD1A.EBE6B38A@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <3478BD1A.EBE6B38A@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>; from Lee Johnston on Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:32:43PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:32:43PM +0000, Lee Johnston wrote: > Hi I wounder if anyone can help: > > I've been told by two people two different things about regestring a > domain name. > > One person says you must add the domain zone files to the DNS server and > alter named.boot accordingly and then email Internic requesting a link > from the root servers to the DNS Server hosting the zone files. > > The other says you must email internic before altering the DNS server > files. > > Who is right??? Both of them. You need to specify the names of at least two name servers to register a domain, but they don't need to be running at that point. On the other hand, they should be running as soon as the domain is registered, and since it doesn't do any harm to have them running before, I'd suggest that you set up the name server first. Greg